[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: Broadband infrastructure

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Sender: Cowles, Macon

In our planning, we should consider the implications of Boulder's slow broadband infrastructure compared to . .  . Longmont. 


See http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_24657188/buildout-longmonts-fiber-network-could-start-next-summer?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com


Longmont's Broadband offers the following service: Download/Upload speed of up to 1Gbps for $50 per month.


Here in Boulder, along Pearl Street, here is what's available:


CenturyLink: $108, Download/Upload speed of up to 20/2 Mbps
Comcast: $199.95, Download/Upload speed of up to 105Mbps/10Mbps


In other words, in Boulder a business customer would pay 4 times as much as a business customer in Longmont for service that is 100 times slower for upload and 10 times slower for download. Or alternatively,  in Boulder a business customer would pay twice
 as much as a business customer in Longmont for service that is 500 times slower for upload and 50 times slower for download.


It would seem to offer us a great project in partnership with the business community: creating broadband service as robust and cheap as what the Longmont utility is now offering and building out so that it can reach most of the city.














Macon Cowles
Boulder City Council Member





1726 Mapleton Ave.








Boulder, Colorado 80304
CowlesM at bouldercolorado.gov
(303) 447-3062
(303) 638-6884