The thousands of Navajo Nation residents who rely on the internet to work, study, and communicate across their 27,000-square-mile reservation will be out of luck April 7, if their service provider shuts access as planned, the Associated Press reports. A tribal audit last year revealed that Utah-based provider OnSat Network Communications Inc. might have double-billed the tribe, and it raised questions about how the tribe requested bids for the internet contract. Those discoveries led the Universal Service Administrative Co., which administers the service under the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate program, to tell the tribe March 28 that it would withhold $2.1 million from OnSat. Jim Fitting, an attorney for OnSat, said the delay in payment means it can’t pay subcontractor SES Americom for satellite time. "With USAC taking this particular position, it doesn’t look like we’re going to get paid in the foreseeable future," Fitting said. "We’re already $4 million in the hole, so why should we continue doing it?"