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Longmont (which is ~12 miles north of Boulder) got municiple broadband a while back. https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/longmont-powe
by kyrra 8y ago
Longmont (which is ~12 miles north of Boulder) got municiple broadband a while back. https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m/longmont-power-communications/broadband-service https://www.longmontcolorado.gov/departments/departments-e-m...
This also follows Fort Collins from 7 months ago: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-cable-lobby-misinformation-campaign-against-muni-broadband/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-ca...
Note that Longmont took a couple attempts I believe to get it passed (it failed in 2009 and 2011, then passed in 2013)
- awful_waffle 8y agoFormer Longmont resident/NextLight customer here. I can't understate how fantastic the broadband service is out there. Usually my speeds clocked in around the 700-900mbps range (both up/down), and at its slowest, maybe 300mbps. No port blocking, so I could host my own web/game servers. The one time they performed maintenance, they notified customers a week in advance and scheduled the 15-minute down time to be around 3am. Since I was a 'charter' customer, my bill was a flat $50/mo, though I'm pretty certain that new customers don't pay much more than that. I truly believe if more people understood what _good_ internet is like, there would be a MUCH stronger push for communal broadband services.
- driverdan 8y agoIt doesn't have to be communal. I had Google Fiber. It cost more but was also great.
- jbuzbee 8y agoI'm in Centennial CO. We also voted in municipal fiber broadband a while back. My neighborhood is slated to get 1GB symmetric from Ting for $89 https://ting.com/internet/town/centennial https://ting.com/internet/town/centennial