Virginia officials and broadband providers have had the “rug pulled out from under them” by a U.S. Commerce Department policy shift on internet expansion, the state’s Broadband Advisory Council chairwoman said Monday. Virginia was the first state in the nation to submit a proposal and plans for a share of BEAD’s $42.5 billion to extend broadband service to underserved, mostly rural communities. The state’s non-deployment funding included such tasks as bringing cellphone service to dead zones. It is unclear how many internet service providers had applied for BEAD funding in Virginia, nor how many applications had been approved prior to the notice. Another satellite service, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, has yet to hit the market.