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Frontier and Comcast present competing fiber plans to Westville; companies outline timing, restoration and contact procedures
Summary
Frontier and Comcast representatives briefed the Westville Town Council on separate fiber buildouts for the town, saying permits and contractor coordination are next steps and providing local contacts and restoration commitments.
At a Westville Town Council meeting that was streamed on YouTube, representatives from Frontier and Comcast outlined separate plans to bring new fiber infrastructure to Westville, estimating permitting and staged turn-ups this summer and promising coordination on restoration and resident communications.
The presentations matter because both proposed builds aim to bring higher-speed, symmetrical broadband to businesses and, later, potentially residences in Westville — a change council members said could affect traffic, utility easements and right-of-way work.
Mike O'Keefe, vice president of external affairs for Frontier in Indiana, said Frontier will “upgrade all of our areas to fiber to the home,” describing a mostly overlay approach where the company will overlash fiber on existing copper lines but use boring for roughly 35% of routes. He said Frontier expects…
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