Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Google Fiber has been approved to build an all-fiber network in Wheat Ridge, CO. This approval follows Google Fiber’s Lakewood and Westminster projects in Colorado that were announced within the past year. The service provider has offered…
Wireless and broadband provider Vistabeam last month acquired Airbits, which served the towns of Estes Park and Pole Hill, which are in Colorado’s Front Range area. Vistabeam also established a digital empowerment Center in Yuma, Colorado. The move into Colorado’s…
Open access network operator Underline is launching what Bob Founder and CEO Bob Thompson calls the “most generous” Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) offering in the U.S. Telecompetitor talked to Thompson about the low-income broadband service and got an update on…
Loveland Pulse, a municipal broadband network in Loveland, Colorado, has seen considerable success since turning up its first residential customer in June 2020, and the company will be expanding to neighboring communities, said Brieana Reed-Harmel, fiber manager for the company, in…
Colorado governor Jared Polis signed a bill this week that is expected to put the state in a better position to obtain upcoming broadband funding. Senate Bill 23-183 removes what the Governor’s Office of Information Technology calls the biggest barrier…
The states of Colorado and Pennsylvania have released details about upcoming broadband funding programs. Colorado’s Advance Colorado Broadband grant program plans to award $162 million and Pennsylvania’s Broadband Infrastructure Program has a budget of $200 million. Both programs are funded…
Google Fiber will begin work on an all-fiber gigabit network that will serve residents and businesses in Westminster, Colorado later this year. The company also said it will build a network in Chandler, Arizona. Construction, which will take place on…
Resound Networks has received final authorization from the FCC for winning bids in seven states in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) program. The company was the winning bidder for over $300 million in funding to cover some of the…
Ting Internet, a division of Tucows, is expanding its fiber internet services into Aurora, Colorado, its largest network build to date. Once the buildout is completed, Ting will be able to supply fiber internet to more than 130,000 homes and…
MetroNet says that it is investing $130 million in a fiber network in Colorado Springs, its first project in Colorado. Construction is scheduled to begin “in the coming weeks,” with the first customers coming online during 2022. “Colorado Springs marks…
Ting Internet will be the initial anchor tenant on Colorado Springs Utilities’ not-for-profit city-wide fiber network. Construction of the network will begin by the third quarter. The network is expected eventually to pass more than 200,000 addresses. During the early…
The FCC is ready to authorize Connect America Fund CAF II funding for five more companies for rural broadband deployments in six states, including Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona. The commission says it is ready to authorize CAF…
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