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NextLink says Lampasas fiber project 76% complete, outlines phases to finish build
Summary
NextLink told Lampasas council it has built roughly 60 miles of network and passed about 76% of households inside the city, has completed a second independent fiber route for redundancy, and expects to restart work on remaining phases in the second half of the year with an aim to finish next year.
NextLink representative Chris Hoffman told the Lampasas mayor and council on April 16 that the company's fiber-to-the-home project in the city has reached roughly 76% completion and about 60 miles of network.
Hoffman said NextLink has prioritized redundancy after single-line fiber outages caused broad service interruptions: “Whenever a fiber line gets cut, it kinda takes down all of the surface,” he said, adding the company finished an independent second fiber route into Lampasas in October 2023 so one circuit can keep traffic flowing if the other is damaged. "Since we got that completed in…
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