Bringing
World-Class Broadband
to rural Vermont
VCUDA serves to unite the interests of Vermont’s growing municipal internet networks, devising ways to share resources and foster CUD collaboration on critical policy, finance, legal, legislative and business issues.
Our Mission
“VCUDA facilitates collaboration between CUDs and is the platform which allows CUDs to speak with a single voice on relevant public policy matters. VCUDA also serves to amplify the public broadband mission of the CUDs.”
~Ellie de Villiers, VCUDA President
Our Focus
Vermont’s Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband
Watch the “Connected” Documentary to learn how CUDs started, and are working to bring high-speed internet to rural Vermont.
The historic, inspiring, and uniquely Vermont story showcases the grassroots effort across the state to solve a common problem – the lack of internet connectivity.
The film captures the CUD story, starting with visionary Vermonters solving market failure in their towns, developing a dynamic, interconnected future for Vermont.
Produced by the Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) and Well-Told Films in 2024.
All this started with what at the time was really a radical idea, that if we, in rural Vermont, were going to depend on the big telecommunication companies to wire our homes and get us internet, we’d be waiting until our grandchildren had grandchildren.”
~Peter Welch, U.S. Senator Vermont, “CONNECTED”
CUDs Bring World Class Broadband to Vermont’s Unserved and Underserved Communities
Eliot Szwajkowski
“Reliable and fast internet is no longer an amenity but a requirement for the modern economy. My wife and I would never have been able to move here without ECFiber.”
Peter Rude
“Broadband internet service from DVFiber was a key factor for me starting my own business and prevented us from moving elsewhere.”
Megan and Matt McLane
“The work of CVFiber and other communication districts is historic and deeply important.”