CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Wednesday night, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors agreed staff write a letter to the State Corporation Commission about inadequacies of CenturyLink/Lumen service… and the lack of a good response why. Rivanna Supervisor Bea LaPisto Kirtley candidly tells Morning News she does not think the letter will be effective. She says CenturyLink is only interested in selling off their assets to Lumen and Brightspeed.

She said even with the new company revealing their plan to spend $3-billion in improvements, that’s spread out over more than 20 states which means very little impact on Albemarle County. She says Albemarle has many more CenturyLink infrastructure issues than whatever share is used to improve here..

She’s hoping the new company will spend the money needed… or a competitor comes in and serves Albemarle residents the way they need to be.