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Virginia Telecommunications Initiative provides funding to expand broadband to nearly 80% of the Eastern Shore. June 22, 2022 (EXMORE, Va.) – The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) has been awarded an unprecedented $15.6 million grant that will allow ESVBA to continue closing the digital divide on the Eastern Shore by expanding the broadband
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ESVBA announces residential service to over 2k local households on Virginia’s Eastern Shore …and just doubled all residential customer speeds (for free!)   Exmore, Virginia, Jan. 25, 2022 – Just under five years after announcing their first residential pilot serving just six houses in Harborton, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority has just crossed
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Exmore, Virginia, July 24, 2019 – Just two and a half years after making the step towards offering fiber to the home (FTTH), the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) achieved a milestone, or three to be precise.  According to BroadbandNow, an evaluator and reporting agency for broadband across the United States, the ESVBA
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  You are invited… Help the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority celebrate the seven community expansion of their Fiber to the Home program. _____ Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will feature special guests: Virginia Senator Lynwood Lewis Virginia Delegate Robert Bloxom   _____ Join Us: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 9:00 – 10:00 am   ESVBA Offices
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority is accepting network extension requests from private broadband service providers. Feedback forms are available at https://esvba.com/network-extension-request-announcement and due by 5pm on May 4th, 2017. Bloxom, VA (April 4, 2017) – Private broadband service providers are invited to add their voice to the regional network’s extension planning process. The Eastern
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EXMORE, VA., At its March 16th meeting, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) approved to accept Network Extension Requests by service providers in an effort to expand broadband services on the Eastern Shore. Service providers must complete the Network Extension Request Form (www.esvba.com/????) and submit them to ESVBA no later than May 4th,
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) recently reduced its rates as much as 44% on circuits below 200 meg/sec. Initial construction of the ESVBA was funded with federal & state grants, and federal appropriations administered by NASA. Since these grant funds have been expended, the ESVBA operates solely on revenues that it receives
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) has reduced its Internet rates as much as 35 percent and 20 percent on Ethernet transport circuits. This is the second reduction in two years. Initial construction of the ESVBA was funded with federal and state grants, and federal appropriations administered by NASA. Since these grant funds
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At the 21st Annual Harvest Fest celebrations at Sunset Beach, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) presented Accomack and Northampton Counties checks for the first installment to repay the funds which both counties contributed to create the ESVBA. Senator Ralph Northam and Delegate Lynwood Lewis took time out from greeting constituents to participate
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Virginia Telecommunications Initiative provides funding to expand broadband to nearly 80% of the Eastern Shore. June 22, 2022 (EXMORE, Va.) – The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) has been awarded an unprecedented $15.6 million grant that will allow ESVBA to continue closing the digital divide on the Eastern Shore by expanding the broadband
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ESVBA announces residential service to over 2k local households on Virginia’s Eastern Shore …and just doubled all residential customer speeds (for free!)   Exmore, Virginia, Jan. 25, 2022 – Just under five years after announcing their first residential pilot serving just six houses in Harborton, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority has just crossed
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Exmore, VA (July 10, 2017) – As a part of their strategic planning process, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority (ESVBA) will hold two public Town Hall meetings next week to discuss broadband connectivity and service opportunities for Accomack and Northampton counties. The sessions will be held from 6-8pm on July 18th (Eastern Shore
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EXMORE, VA., September 15, 2016 The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority’s Board of Directors approved an update to the WISP EVPL business rules to eliminate the limit of 10 sites.  This update will promote continued growth by our WISP partners and enable continued expansion of broadband services on the Eastern Shore in a cost-effective manner.
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EXMORE, VA., July 21, 2016 The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority’s Board approved a reduction in pricing as well as approved new prices for bandwidth levels greater than 1Gbps.  This update will help organizations be able to subscribe to larger quantities of bandwidth as well as having more options for incremental bandwidth to better fit
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EXMORE, VA., June 7, 2016 The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority today announced a re-vamped and re-organized website. The new website will employ new features to ease navigation as well as additional tools to better serve the people of the Eastern Shore. The site upgrades, which will feature both enhanced content and a redesigned
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ESVBA’s New Pricing Plan! With a desire to help reach more customers in a cost-effective way, on January 29, 2015 the ESVBA Board of Directors voted to approve a new plan that reduces rates across the board.  Additionally, in an effort to assist service providers extend broadband services to residential customers, the ESVBA’s Board voted to approve the ESVBA’s
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At a special meeting of the Board of Directors on January 16, 2014, ESVBA’s Board voted to reduce rates across the board for all customers upon contract renewal and for all new contracts.

KIPTOPEKE — At the 21st annual Eastern Shore of Virginia Harvest Festival, the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority presented Accomack and Northampton counties checks for the first installment to repay the funds which both counties contributed to create the authority.­ State Sen. Ralph Northam and Delegate Lynwood Lewis took time out from greeting constituents
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On August 19, 2013, the ESVBA enabled the last components of its core network to enable and support IPv6.  Currently, the ESVBA is directly connected to one of the Tier 1 providers that are natively running the IPv6 Internet backbone.  We are routing our provider-independent IPv6 IP space out to the IPv6 backbone and have
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