Schools' high-speed installation going slo-mo in West Virginia
March 17, 2012
A $126.3 million federal stimulus grant to provide high-speed Internet to hundreds of schools and other public facilities throughout West Virginia is far behind the timeline state education officials had envisioned and is hitting implementation snags, state Board of Education officials learned.
Board members said that more than two years after West Virginia received the grant, there was still confusion about how many schools could actually connect to a high-speed Internet network. They also expressed growing frustration with the quality of service and lack of communication provided by Frontier Communications, a major contractor in the project.
Schools' high-speed installation going slo-mo in West Virginia