{"id":131610,"date":"2016-09-22T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/ooooh-municipalish-1gb-broadband-color-me-intrigued.html"},"modified":"2016-09-22T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T23:37:45","slug":"ooooh-municipalish-1gb-broadband-color-me-intrigued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/ooooh-municipalish-1gb-broadband-color-me-intrigued.html","title":{"rendered":"Ooooh. Municipal(ish) 1Gb broadband? Color me intrigued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that our cable is grotesquely slow, but it&#39;s hard to argue with More Speed. Also, a private\/public partnership around municipal broadband sounds like an idea I want to encourage. Especially to give Comcast a poke in the nose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/22\/centennials-gigabit-internet-service-pre-orders\/\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/22\/centennials-gigabit-internet-service-pre-orders\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/22\/centennials-gigabit-internet-service-pre-orders\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/C23ZW6ky4EnhYdIpmdyD0wNJyAYUmazPU61Ih6ljJBTVYlzi6t0X7JnPmN1FGTjSAqj2UuL0jOQ5oBZ-isoeOSa1SUWouVFvDXWTlm6QFACsXgnW5rhkVrJxkgI5x5hE_cYkDJHv7n3cxEAB=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/22\/centennials-gigabit-internet-service-pre-orders\/'>Centennial&rsquo;s gigabit internet service now taking pre-orders<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThree years after Centennial voters approved a measure clearing the city to explore building its own broadband network, a Canadian company is asking, will you pre-order gigabit internet for $89 a m&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JWoyk8grcWf'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that our cable is grotesquely slow, but it&#39;s hard to argue with More Speed. Also, a private\/public partnership around municipal broadband sounds like an idea I want to encourage. Especially to give Comcast a poke in the nose. http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/22\/centennials-gigabit-internet-service-pre-orders\/ Centennial&rsquo;s gigabit internet service now taking pre-orders Three years after Centennial voters approved a measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/ooooh-municipalish-1gb-broadband-color-me-intrigued.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ooooh. Municipal(ish) 1Gb broadband? 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