COUNTY BEAT: Nov 8, 2022 Meeting

Expansion of the fiber broadband network was up for discussion during work sessions Tuesday with the Rio Blanco County Board of Commissioners. IT Director Trevor Nielsen and Facilities Director Eric Jaquez outlined plans and options for replacing wireless connections with underground fiber, which “goes in the ground and stays there for 100 years,” Nielsen explained, where wireless equipment has to be replaced often. Adding fiber connections to subdivisions west of Meeker, and to some previously…