Suit Filed Over Unused Internet Fibers

West Virginia officials and Frontier Communications have been accused of wasting government funding on unused fiber for internet connection. The Gazette-Mail reports that internet company Citynet recently filed a federal lawsuit accusing Frontier and state officials of defrauding the U.S. government by paying the company to install fiber that didn’t meet federal grant guidelines. At least $1.1 million in unused fiber was either built to closing schools or county education buildings that already received internet service through a different connection. Some of that fiber was used for less than a year, and much of it was never used at all. The funding came from a $126 million federal grant from the U.S. government.