RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc., is the big winner of federal funding to provide universal broadband in Gloucester and Mathews counties under Virginia’s Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment plan.
RiverStreet was awarded funding to serve 2,528 sites in Gloucester and 915 sites in Mathews, according to a spreadsheet showing all awards across the state. Other companies that were awarded funding to provide services were Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services—28 sites each in Gloucester and Mathews, and SpaceX—one site each in Gloucester and Mathews. Additionally, two sites in Mathews were awarded to Cogeco US LLC (doing business as Breezeline).
Verizon Virginia, which had long been working with the Mathews Broadband Advisory Board on a plan for the county and which had applied for the BEAD funding to complete it, received no funding for either county.
The final plan for BEAD funding across the state was announced last week by Gov. Glenn Younkgin, who said in a press release tha...