A years-long effort to expand access to high-speed internet to all corners of the state, especially far-flung rural areas, will likely get a boost once the ballots from Tuesday’s statewide election are tallied. Voters from a half dozen Colorado cities and towns — Firestone, Frisco, Lake City, Limon, Lyons, and Severance — went to the ballot box Tuesday to decide whether to cast off a 2005 state law that restricts municipal governments from providing broadband internet service. Final results from the election were still being compiled Tuesday night. If the vote goes as expected — 86 cities and towns and more than 30 counties have already overturned the law in just the past decade — it will mean more options for deploying a service that many now equate to water and electricity in terms of its critical role in economic vitality. “If an area doesn’t have reliable, good broadband access and availability, that area is not going to thrive,” said Jud Hollingsworth, a town trustee with Lake City, a mountain town of several hundred residents that is among the most remote in Colorado.
Municipal Broadband Expected To Get Support From More Colorado Towns After Tuesday’s Vote
John Aguilar, Denver Post: Business
Wed, 04/04/2018 - 5:00am
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