Comment on Colorado Divide: Broadband gaps threaten to leave rural areas in the dust of digital age

Colorado Divide: Broadband gaps threaten to leave rural areas in the dust of digital age

MEEKER — In this town, with no stoplights and no Starbucks, life moves slower. Except online. Internet speeds in Meeker, a town of 2,500 in one of the most remote stretches of northwest Colorado, can reach breakneck download speeds of 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to capture a two-hour movie in about 30 seconds and far quicker than connection speeds most urbanites get on the Front Range. For Hannah Turner, who spends her day on a computer processing data-heavy reports for a large bank, the lightning online speed in Meeker — the result of a multimillion-dollar initiative by Rio Blanco County to upgrade its internet infrastructure — is what has kept her from fleeing to the Front Range. Helen H.

 

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