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Musk’s SpaceX pans Virginia broadband plan as ‘massive waste’
Elon Musk's SpaceX wrote a letter this week slamming Virginia's federal broadband grant proposal.
Virginia expands rural broadband with fiber focus
A student in class on a snow day. An elderly couple checking in with their doctor instead of driving to an office. A dairy farmer coordinating automatic milking machines hooked up to cows. All three examples include a commonality in today’s increasingly digital world: internet access. “It’s quality of life, it’s work, it is health […]
Satellite internet improves mobile health care
The Health Wagon got its start in 1980 when Sister Bernadette Kenny, a nurse practitioner, began dispensing free, much-needed health care to people in rural Appalachia from her Volkswagen Beetle. “She was thinking outside the box,” says Health Wagon President and CEO Teresa Tyson. Kenny served as inspiration, Tyson says, when the health care […]
Wise County is first to receive Starlink internet in Va.
Wise County Public Schools announced Monday it is the first school district in Virginia to use SpaceX‘s Starlink satellite internet constellation for high-speed internet. Founded by Elon Musk, aerospace company SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches spacecraft and is working to deploy its Starlink system, a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit that will delivers […]
