CHARLESTON — West Virginia was awarded $1.2 billion through a 2023 federal broadband expansion program, but the latest proposal by the state only plans to spend half of that to connect unserved and underserved parts of the state.

Earlier this week, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that the state was taking public comments through Tuesday, Aug. 26, on its final proposal to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

“If you care about expanding high-speed broadband to West Virginia, this is an important announcement,” Morrisey said in a video message posted to social media Tuesday. “We’ve been working very closely with the Trump administration to bring additional

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