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Verizon Communications announced May 13 it would sell about 4.8 million access lines to Frontier Communications Corp., including those in West Virginia, in a move that could lead to expanded broadband Internet access throughout the state.

A relatively large percentage of West Virginia doesn’t have access to broadband Internet services compared to many other states. State officials have pushed for greater broadband access for the state’s rural areas, and the economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress includes $7.2 billion for expanding broadband throughout the country.

$2.7 million grant to provide universal access to broadband for a seven county region in central West Virginia

proposes to bring a wireless broadband system to Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Randolph, Tucker, and Barbour counties.

“The Zone was created to forge a link between counties and higher education to provide tax incentives and advantages in locating the infrastructure needed to deploy wireless broadband,”