Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by dantillberg on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:16AM (#21005665)

If you can't get municipal fiber where you live in Longmont (I'm a resident; hi!), you should most likely be complaining to your landlord, not the city. If you're not sure, call up Longmont Power & Communications and ask them what's up.

There are a few apartment complexes around Longmont that have resisted integration with the city's fiber network. My understanding is that the city has negotiated with each of them over the installation of fiber on their premises and that some of those negotiations didn't succeed, e.g. the apartment complex owners wanted to own and control the fiber that the city would pay to install.

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by 8ytecoder on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:02PM (#21007374)

(I don't live in Colorodo)

But this rings true. My building has some sort of an arrangement with Comcast. It's only Comcast and AT&T that are there right now. They pretend to work with other ISPs I bring in but usually cite "something something safety" and prevent them from setting it up. I have given up for now since Comcast has got the price down to $50 for a 75Mbps line for me.

Point is, while I don't know how and can't confirm, I have a strong feeling that Comcast pays off landlords somehow.

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by samstave on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:33AM (#21005827)

Get a neighbor and a few dollars and broadcast that connection as a wisp via ubnt equipment.

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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by xur17 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:53PM (#21008676)

I have a friend that did this between 3 houses. The Ubiquiti equipment to make it happen is fairly affordable, and works pretty well.

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