Increased reliability to its current 9-1-1 system is the goal of Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission (PBRPC), which is working with Big Bend Telephone Company (BBT) of Alpine to build a diverse telephone company (TEL-CO) network. “This will enable us to have connectivity via redundant circuits to all of our 11 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs),” Cheryl Keith, Director, Administrative Services with BPRPC, said. “The new fiber will increase our current bandwidth from 3 to 6.5 mbps.” Those changes will be extremely important to the rural West Texas Region, which has experienced many outages due to fiber cuts, Keith said. “The new redundant ...