Rural Broadband Initiative

REC is powering game-changing solutions. For decades, your Cooperative has constructed and maintained an electric distribution system to serve over 177,000 connections across portions of 22 Virginia counties. In 2021, REC announced exciting broadband partnerships with local internet service providers. In 2023, the first REC members were connected to high speed internet. Make-ready construction is enabling REC to upgrade its electric system at a much faster pace while also enabling REC and its partners to build a fiber network bringing broadband to unserved and underserved communities.
 

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Broadband News

Efforts to provide broadband internet service in Louisa County took a leap forward when officials announced today a recently proposed partnership with...
On Dec. 17, the Orange County Broadband Authority (OCBA) approved an agreement between the county and REC to lease capacity across 19 miles of fiber o...

REC Launches Fiber Utility Network

Friday | December 13, 2019
REC has kicked off a six-year project that will bring benefits to its member-owners for decades.