{"id":795060,"date":"2019-04-22T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-aims-to-start-building-its-own-high-speed-internet-network-soon\/"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T13:31:37","slug":"breckenridge-aims-to-start-building-its-own-high-speed-internet-network-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-aims-to-start-building-its-own-high-speed-internet-network-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge aims to start building its own high-speed internet network soon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Breckenridge Town Council has approved $8 million for the first phase of design and construction of a high-speed fiber optic network. The town is aiming to get the first fiber cables in the ground on May 22.<\/strong>
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Breckenridge is pushing forward with an \u201caggressive\u201d timeline for the installation of a town-owned, high-speed fiber network in hope of getting the first cables in the ground on May 22.<\/p>\n

In October, Breckenridge Town Council approved spending $8 million<\/a> on the first phase of construction for the \u201cbackbone\u201d of a high-speed fiber network and some connections to the town\u2019s businesses and residents. The budget allocation came after council supported a resolution<\/a> in September expressing the town\u2019s intent to finance up to $25 million for the entire project.<\/p>\n

As town staff continues working on the design and construction of the fiber network, they\u2019re preparing for the coming launch of network operations and have even secured a partnership with a service provider. Meanwhile, the first phase of construction is set to begin this spring before braking for the winter and picking up again next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really hoping to be in the ground on May 22, but that is a very tight timeline,\u201d explained Shannon Haynes, assistant town manager. \u201cWe are hopeful we can make that happen, but it\u2019s contractor and probably a little bit weather dependent.\u201d<\/p>\n

One item of note, the planned construction of the fiber network will cover a portion of the Summit County Recpath going from the Justice Center on Airport Road up to Adams Avenue in Breckenridge.<\/p>\n

While the construction of the network should allow businesses and residents in the town core to start tapping into high-speed internet service as early as this year, it will also force a temporary closure of a piece of the recpath with fiber being laid under existing streets and paved pathways in town.<\/p>\n

With that, the portion of recpath is expected to remain closed until roughly July 1 with Park Avenue and Airport Road being the likely detour while the recpath is tied up.<\/p>\n

The town previously contracted with Foresite Group for a feasibility study and subsequent engineering work on the fiber network. Now, ALLO Communications has been selected to operate the network and provide service.<\/p>\n

According to a memo produce by town staff, Breckenridge\u2019s fiber will connect to the Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s fiber that\u2019s being leased by Summit County. Once complete, Fiber9600 is slated to become part of the larger network that will create a loop of fiber running along Interstate 70 from Denver up to the northwest corner of Colorado before going back to Denver through Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n

The memo says the county\u2019s fiber lease will give Breckenridge\u2019s network access to the fiber from I-70 south to Breckenridge, and Fiber9600 will connect to a \u201cMeet Me Center\u201d that\u2019s going to be built by the Justice Center on Airport Road.<\/p>\n

Breckenridge is also putting together promotional materials with Launch Advertising to help brand the network, which will be called \u201cFiber9600,\u201d in addition to producing other creative materials for marketing and community outreach purposes. A press conference is set for 4 p.m. June 3 to announce the town\u2019s partnership with ALLO Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very pleased so far with our selection and feel very comfortable with them,\u201d said town manager Rick Holman, adding that ALLO has brought a certain \u201clevel of experience\u201d of the table that\u2019s really helped Breckenridge move forward with the fiber project.<\/p>\n

ALLO was founded in Nebraska in 2003. The company has made recent headlines in Colorado after building a fiber network for Fort Morgan<\/a>, a small city in northeastern Colorado with a heavy agrarian influence and a population barely over 11,000 people.<\/p>\n

Additionally, ALLO provides broadband, telephone and video services throughout a number of cities in Nebraska, including Lincoln, North Platte, Ogallala, Bridgeport, Scottsbluff, Gering, Hastings and Alliance, according to the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not new at this,\u201d said Brad Molina, founder and president, as he was introduced to town leaders earlier this month and added that ALLO has 550 employees and 65,000 customers in nine markets.<\/p>\n

For Fiber9600, Breckenridge has dictated five \u201czones\u201d scheduled to get fiber connections in the 2019 construction plan. Town staff would prefer to have the zones covering the areas including downtown and the recpath outside the Riverwalk Center done by July 1, though Haynes acknowledged that could be a tough task under such a tight timeframe.<\/p>\n

If construction in the downtown area goes beyond July, the town could look to take a short hiatus to ease the strain around the Fourth of July holiday before starting up again when everything isn\u2019t so busy.<\/p>\n

Provided everything goes according to plans, customers could be signed up for service as early as this fall.<\/p>\n

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Breckenridge is pushing forward with an \u201caggressive\u201d timeline for the installation of a town-owned, high-speed fiber network in hope of getting the first cables in the ground on May 22. In October, Breckenridge Town Council approved spending $8 million on the first phase of construction for the \u201cbackbone\u201d of a high-speed fiber network and some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 19:43:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}