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Article: business news Fiber-optic cables head across Bay.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2009
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By Carolyn Shapiro
The Virginian-Pilot
Construction crews began stringing fiber-optic cables along the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel this week to bring top Internet speeds to the Eastern Shore.
The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority, a quasi-government agency created by state law last year, hopes to develop the infrastructure that telecommunications companies deemed too expensive for the number of customers available in the rural communities of Accomack and Northampton counties.
By shouldering the $6.3 million cost of that fiber-optic "backbone," with the help of state and federal funding, the authority hopes to persuade ...