County approves Light Fiber backup and defers payment until October to reduce outage risk

Jun 22, 2026

Following an eight-hour outage, commissioners approved a Light Fiber redundant internet installation with deferred payment to Oct. 1 and directed staff to test temporary hotspots for courts while build-out proceeds.

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Bee County Commissioners approved a plan to add Light Fiber as a redundant internet path for county operations after a wide outage on June 11 left county systems offline for about eight hours, including district courts.

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