WASHINGTON, August 10, 2026 – ZiTel will take over a troubled Virginia broadband project, inheriting 14,547 potential customer locations and a construction schedule that leaves the provider less than a year to meet its first major deadline. The provider has been approved to take over RiverStreet Network’s unfinished broadband deployment in Franklin, Henry and Patrick counties. The Virginia broadband office determined in July that RiverStreet was incapable of completing its deployment work after, and subsequently removed RiverStreet from the project as federal deadlines for spending the underlying pandemic-era broadband funds were fast-approaching.