Bedford County says it wants out of a federally funded project that internet service provider RiverStreet Networks has failed to complete.
County officials sent letters to the state’s broadband authority and to the ISP two days after RiverStreet requested that the state extend a corrective action plan deadline that was due June 8.
RiverStreet teamed up in 2022 and 2023 with the Martinsville-based West Piedmont Planning District Commission to receive federal funding on contracts to deliver broadband to 50,805 potential locations in 12 counties. But it has reached only 11,773 of them…