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    Virginia Shifts $700 Million In Relief Funds To Boost Rural Broadband Access

    by Claudia Grisales Jul 16, 2021 3 minutes
    Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, here at a March event, has outlined a $700 million investment to boost broadband access and help close the digital divide for some of the state's poorest regions.

    Tony and Debbie Steffey are retirees who live on a fixed income in southwest Virginia, and they're desperate for internet. To get it, they'd have to pay $10,000 for a fiber line to their double-wide trailer in the community of Carbo.

    "We don't have it, we have no choice," Debbie Steffey, 67, said of not having the money to pay for the construction of a line.

    "We don't even have email or nothing," added Tony Steffey, 65.

    It's the Steffeys'

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