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Cable's Contributions to Virginia
- Virginia cable
operators pay $148 Million in wages to Virginians.
- Virginia cable
operators pay $38 Million in franchise fees to localities.
- Virginia cable
operators pay $12 million in state taxes.
- The Virginia cable
industry employs 5400 people across Virginia.
- Cable operators
provide more than 10,000 hours of Public Education and Government
programming a month in Virginia.
- Virginia's cable
operators have provided 2100 schools with free connections.
- Through Cable In
The Classroom we provide 500 hours monthly of commercial free
educational programming to teachers.
- Over the past 5 years, for
example, the cable industry invested over $2.3 Billion in infrastructure in
Virginia in order to improve service quality and reliability and
to offer new services such as high speed Internet over cable
modems, telephone service and digital cable television.