Lies badly about A1 network (6)
I believe the answer is:
liaise
'network' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'lies badly about a1' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates an anagram (letters in the wrong order).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'ai' becomes 'ia' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'lies' is an anagram of 'lise'.
'lise' enclosing 'ia' is 'LIAISE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for liaise that I've seen before include "make contact" , "Act as a link between groups" , "Act as go-between" , "Communicate with for mutual benefit" , "Conduct information between two groups" .)