Montrose, Colorado Approves Public Networks

When corporations failed to invest adqequately in better broadband service for Montrose, residents of the Colorado city decided the service was too important to leave to chance. They voted 3 to 1 to allow the city to play a bigger role in financing and building critical elements of a faster, more accessible network. Their goal is to become one of a handful of gigabit cities in the U.S.

My little San Juan Mountains town in western Colorado on April Fool’s Day voted by an overwhelming 74% to reclaim the right to provide our own broadband, cable, phone and other telecommunication services.

By Jim Branscome

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