---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steve Schwerbel <wispacolorado+90...@wispa.org> Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:19 AM Subject: [WISPAColorado] Two Opportunities To: <dave.t...@gmail.com>
Two cities in Colorado are expressing interest in finding a partner to expand broadband. Thornton just issued a Request for Expression of Interest for a provider to deploy a 1-gig symmetrical network, and possibly to maintain the 45 miles of fiber the city has already built. More details in the REI here. Boulder is considering how to operate the fiber backbone that is nearing completion. From an article in the Daily Camera: For this approach, the city would work with a private provider that would utilize the city’s backbone to implement broadband. Annual operating costs for this approach and a second approach would be about $50,000. The second option, which is already included in the staff-recommended option, entails Boulder using its backbone to provide broadband to residents and businesses that are not already served by a private provider. The last option on the table would be a city-run broadband network which would entail the city providing all of the marketing, billing and technical services, like what is done in Longmont. It is estimated to cost about $138 million to construct, maintain and operate. If you are interested in influencing this project or want more information, now would be a good time to start having conversations with Boulder officials to talk about your service. Posted by Steve Schwerbel to: "State Forum Colorado board, "Two Opportunities" topic. You are opted-in to the [State Forum Colorado] board. This board is email-list enabled -- replying to this email will send your message to the entire message board. For best results if replying, please do so with a clean message (with no reply or forward history in the message body). If you want to stop receiving these emails please click here: opt-out and unsubscribe -- This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would work: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-6981366665607352320-FXtz Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC _______________________________________________ LibreQoS mailing list LibreQoS@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/libreqos
