Blue Ridge Electric Partners with WCFIBER to Expand Area Broadband Access

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will soon take its first steps toward supplying high-speed internet across its five-county service territory. Blue Ridge announced this week that the cooperative had entered into a partnership with WCFIBER to proceed with this project. According to the results of two-year study, Blue Ridge members have shown a need for high-speed internet across large parts of the electric power provider’s 1,800 square mile service area. Blue Ridge’s management and board of directors stipulated that this is a project for which Blue Ridge ratepayers will not be charged.