This data represents the Virginia State Broadband Data area of broadband availability. Area of broadband availability refers to those individual US Census Blocks where each facilities-based provider of broadband service claims to provide broadband services. For each area the provider name and technology they provide there are represented. In addition, advertised and typical upload and download speeds are often reported at these levels. If a provider offers availability to any location within a census block, the entire block is deemed available under this effort. For this purpose, ''broadband service'' is the provision, on either a commercial or non-commercial basis, of data transmission technology that provides two-way data transmission to and from the Internet with advertised speeds of at least 4 megabits per second (mbps) downstream and 0.5 mbps upstream to end users. For this purpose, an ''end user'' of broadband service is a residential or business party, institution or State or local government entity that may use broadband service for its own purposes. An entity is a ''facilities based'' provider of broadband service connections to end user locations if any of the following conditions are met: (1) It owns the portion of the physical facility that terminates at the end user location; (2) it obtains unbundled network elements (UNEs), special access lines, or other leased facilities that terminate at the end user location and provisions/equips them as broadband; or (3) it provisions/equips a broadband wireless channel to the end user location over licensed or unlicensed spectrum.

VABB_CABLE： Cable Wireline Coverage (June 2019)
VABB_DSL_COPPER： DSL/Copper Coverage (June 2019)
VABB_FIBER： Fiber Optic Coverage (June 2019)
VABB_FIXED： Fixed Wireless Coverage (June 2019)
VABB_MOBILE： Mobile Wireless Coverage (Dec. 2018)
VABB_LTE： 4G/LTE Wireless Coverage (Dec. 2018)
VABB_satellite： Satellite Coverage (Dec. 2018)
VABB_VATI： Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI) Funding
VABB_TRRC： Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission (TRRC) Funding
VABB_UNDERSERVED： Underserved Areas [greater than 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload and less than 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload] (June 2019)
VABB_Unserved： Unserved Areas [below or equal to 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload] (June 2019)
VABB_Lacking： No Residential Broadband (25/3) reported (June 2019)

This shapefile contains information on the winning bidders in the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase 1 auction for Virginia. This data was released as of Dec 2020

Contains list of VA Public Wifi Hotspots. Updated monthly

This geodatabase contains FCC Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data from a specific year. Please reference FCC website for additional information.

Shapefile contains VA Public Wifi Hotspots. Updated monthly

This geodatabase contains FCC Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data from a specific year. Please reference FCC website for additional information.

GIS layer of the Alternate Connect America Model (ACAM) funding clipped to the extent of the commonwealth of Virginia. Original national layer sourced from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The program required buildouts to 25/3 only in parts of the densest award areas, with extensive areas build to speeds of 10/1 or 4/1.

The locations set forth in the shapefile titled “Shenandoah County Certified Unserved” are unserved by broadband pursuant to §56-585.1:9 of the Code of Virginia. DHCD has rescoped the petition area shapefile removing currently served areas in accordance with the Utility Leverage Program Unserved Certification Guidelines effective May 28, 2021.

This geodatabase contains FCC Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data from a specific year. Please reference FCC website for additional information.

The locations set forth in the shapefile titled “Henry County Certified Unserved” are unserved by broadband pursuant to §56-585.1:9 of the Code of Virginia. DHCD has rescoped the petition area shapefile removing currently served areas in accordance with the Utility Leverage Program Unserved Certification Guidelines effective May 28, 2021.