GREAT BEND TRIBUNE More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Second internet tower approved Texas company expanding rural internet in county Shown is the area southeast of Great Bend where there is a planned telecommunications tower. The Barton County Commission Monday OKed a conditional-use permit to allow the structure. To help promote a Hudson, Texas-based internet provider’s campaign to expand internet access in rural Barton County, the County Commission Monday morning approved the second of five conditional land use permit for AMG Technology Investment Group (Nextlink) to build a telecommunications tower.