<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”&lt;p&gt;Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></comment>
<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhmw2b</author><text>I live in Longmont as well and can confirm that internet here is awesome. I&amp;#x27;ve never once had to think about it and always get at least 800 Mbps.&lt;p&gt;Longmont as a city is great as well. People view it as a cheaper place to live than Boulder, but I&amp;#x27;d much rather live here.</text></comment>