Bid to spread Internet access across Colorado gains high-profile support Read more: Bid to spread Internet access across Colorado gains high-profile

Denver Business Journal

A bid for a $100.6 million federal stimulus grant, which would be used to connect hundreds of Colorado schools with super-fast Internet by 2014, is gaining support just as the last grants are being awarded.

Longmont-based nonprofit Eagle-Net, a technology purchasing cooperative for Colorado schools, is leading the project that would build a network to supply 1-gigabit broadband access for schools in every Colorado county that lack affordable high-speed Internet.

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States ride broadband wave

Stateline.org

Colorado is one of a number of states where state and local governments are prohibited by law to directly provide broadband service, for example, free municipal wireless connections.

So a recommendation in the Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan has state officials scrambling. Released in March, the plan calls for Congress to ensure that state and local governments don’t pose any barriers to making broadband available. If approved, the action could override the state laws.

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