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County Beat: Feb. 21, 2019

RBC | At the Board of County Commissioners’ work session Tuesday in Rangely, Commissioner Gary Moyer presented a mission or vision statement to be sent to all the county department heads and shared with staff. The mission statement reads, “To provide services in a fair, respectful and professional manner consistent with[Read More…]

February 23, 2019 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Commissioners choose Visionary to replace LAI

RBC | Rio Blanco County Commissioners named Visionary Broadband, which is a division of Visionary Communications, to replace Local Access Internet as the county’s second value-added reseller of broadband services after hearing interviews with Visionary and with Homestead Fiber Communications, owned by Jared Harvey of Meeker, and receiving recommendations from the[Read More…]

October 15, 2018 by Niki Turner 2 comments

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County Beat: September 27, 2018

RBC | BROADBAND PROVIDER “I’d be completely transparent with you guys. That’s the important thing,” said Jared Harvey of Homestead Fiber Communications during a work session with commissioners Monday. Harvey is one of two companies seeking LAI’s soon-to-be vacated position as broadband retailer. Visionary, a division of Mammoth, will present[Read More…]

September 29, 2018 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

Plan ahead for next week’s broadband outages

MEEKER | Rio Blanco County will be conducting major maintenance on the fiber network in Meeker from 12-6 a.m., starting Saturday, Sept. 22 and ending Saturday, Sept. 29. This maintenance is the final step in finalizing the fiber network and moving the fiber to the Rio Blanco County Data Center in[Read More…]

September 20, 2018 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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County fiber project moves forward

RBC | LAI Customer Options Earlier this month the county commissioners made the decision to terminate their contract with Meeker’s Local Access Internet (LAI) following a months-long audit into their service payments to the county. According to the audit LAI owes more than $10,000 in unpaid connections. Because of the[Read More…]

September 18, 2018 by Jennifer Hill Comments are Disabled

County Beat: August 31, 2018

RBC I The county commissioners agreed Monday to begin proceedings to terminate their contract with Local Access Internet (LAI) after the results of an audit revealed LAI owed the county more than $10,000 during the 97-day audit period. The audit was done by a third party, and cost the county[Read More…]

August 31, 2018 by editor Comments are Disabled

County approves update to traffic code; higher fines on the horizon

RBC | The county’s IT and communications director, Blake Mobley, informed the board of county commissioners Monday he has accepted a position with Mammoth Networks to help with “Project Thor,” an eight-county fiber network in development across Northwest Colorado, and other broadband projects similar to the one he spearheaded for Rio[Read More…]

March 1, 2018 by editor Comments are Disabled

County opts to take over network operations for broadband system

RBC | In a unanimous decision among commissioners, and county departments including legal, budget, human resources and IT, Rio Blanco County has terminated its agreement with Colorado Fiber Community (CFC) to function as the network operator for the county’s fiber broadband network. The decision was based on a combination of[Read More…]

October 30, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

County agrees on plan to finish broadband project

By Niki Turner [email protected] RBC | Following news that Colorado Fiber Community (CFC), the company contracted to install broadband infrastructure had run out of money and new connections would slow to a crawl, Rio Blanco County Commissioners met to find a way to finish the project. Commissioner Shawn Bolton said[Read More…]

September 29, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

RBC commissioners discuss broadband stall

RBC | Rio Blanco County Commissioners Si Woodruff and Jeff Rector gathered for their monthly Rangely meeting on Monday followed by a broadband work session. The commissioners quickly approved a license agreement with T-Mobile for access to various county-owned towers, which will allow them to place antennas on those towers.[Read More…]

September 21, 2017 by Jennifer Hill Comments are Disabled

Wait for broadband service could get even longer

RBC | Success comes with its own troubles. The county’s broadband project has exceeded expected demand—more customers than anticipated have signed up to receive fiber internet. Colorado Fiber Community (CFC), the company contracted to connect individual addresses, has maxed out their $1.5 million budget, and without an infusion of capital,[Read More…]

September 14, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

Rangely council discusses fiber internet troubles

RANGELY | The Rangely Town Council met Tuesday night where they discussed local fiber internet and voted to transfer money to the Rangely Development Corporation to replace the funding giving to the Rangely Outdoor Museum. The CNCC rodeo team was in attendance at a meeting for the Fund for Public[Read More…]

August 28, 2017 by Jennifer Hill Comments are Disabled