It’s all BS.
WV has never reached a population of two miilion. There’s lots of rural areas that are comatose due to kids moving away for jobs and the elderly dying.
The answer is new residents.
W/o jobs that means retirees. W/o internet retirees won’t move to the state in the numbers needed. Verizon milked the copper line phone system, to the point it can’t be restored. Many areas in the state do not have and won’t have cell service due to the population density.
The only solution is broadband from electric utilities like that set up in southwest VA by AEP.