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<i>"The municipal network, which took on its first residential customers in 2009 and now offers 1-gigabit-per-second service for as little as $70 a month, has also given the city a tech-forward sheen."</i></ul></ul>
 
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*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Tnj-readings-jordan After a decade and two referenda, Longmont, Colo., begins connecting businesses to public-owned broadband]<br>
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<i>"Vince Jordan and the Colorado city of Longmont took on the major Internet-providing telecommunciations companies -- and won. But it was only round one. Now he's working to prove that Longmont Power & Communications -- the city owned utility -- can use 144-strand fiber-optic cabling installed in the 1990s to deliver exceptionally fast Internet to city's businesses and residents."</i></ul></ul>

Revision as of 03:41, 25 May 2015

Links to go along with June 10 "broadband" community roundtable at Williamstown, Mass.

      "The municipal network, which took on its first residential customers in 2009 and now offers 1-gigabit-per-second service for as little as $70 a month, has also given the city a tech-forward sheen."

      "Vince Jordan and the Colorado city of Longmont took on the major Internet-providing telecommunciations companies -- and won. But it was only round one. Now he's working to prove that Longmont Power & Communications -- the city owned utility -- can use 144-strand fiber-optic cabling installed in the 1990s to deliver exceptionally fast Internet to city's businesses and residents."