Frontier targets 100,000 fiber passings in West Virginia

Frontier Communications’ multi-year fiber expansion roadmap calls for it to ramp deployments to hit 1.6 million new passings in 2023 and it looks like a decent chunk of those will be in West Virginia. The operator unveiled plans to invest $100 million to hit 100,000 additional locations in the state this year alone. The new passings will build on the more than 125,000 Frontier has already built in the state over the past two years. In July 2022, Frontier won $1.7 million in grant funding from West Virginia to reach just under 3,000 locations in Mason and Boone Counties there. At the time it promised $5.4 million in matching funds to get the projects done. Back in 2020, Frontier also won $247.6 million to cover 79,391 passings in West Virginia in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, though it subsequently sought to relinquish a handful of the census blocks where it won funding. Though Frontier is striving to reach 10 million locations with fiber by 2025, it hasn’t shed much light on where work is underway other than to say it is building in more than a dozen states.