Great Plains Communications lights up Kentucky’s commercial market

The provider’s new fiber build brings a host of new business services to Louisville, Lexington, and surrounding communities.
Sept. 18, 2025
2 min read

Great Plains Communications (GPC) is taking on Kentucky’s business and wholesale market as part of an ongoing strategy to expand its business services reach into growing markets.

At the heart of this new expansion effort is a new 165-mile fiber network that it says will provide businesses, wholesale customers, wireless carriers and hyperscalers with fully redundant fiber connectivity and a suite of enterprise-grade services with speeds ranging from 1 Gigabit to 400 Gbps.

Operating under the brand “GPC Fiber, by Great Plains Communications,” the network build will deliver fiber connectivity directly to key Kentucky markets, including Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Jeffersontown, Simpsonville, Shelbyville, Bridgeport, Georgetown and Versailles.

Leveraging multi-gigabit optical equipment to ensure resiliency from the backbone to the customer premise, the new network will support a broad portfolio of services including internet access, unified communications, managed Wi-Fi, managed firewall, SD-WAN, 5G backup, private wavelengths, dark fiber and custom-built networks.

Christopher Sikora, Chief Revenue Officer of Great Plains Communications, said the “network was designed and constructed with the connectivity demands of Kentucky enterprises front of mind.”

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