Young or old, big corporation or little mom-and-pop business, everyone feel the interruption, disconnection and financial effect when the web heads out.
Take for instance the interruption of recently. Caused by a cable television being cut at the 27th Street underpass building and construction website, connection was down for thousands from Glenwood Springs all the method to Aspen.
We get that mishaps occur, however we’re puzzled at how susceptible the Roaring Fork Valley stays to considerable web disturbances in 2023. In some methods this is an outcome to the personal market method that started years ago when high-speed web gain access to started presenting to neighborhoods. Rather than considering it an utility (although the web has its roots in federal research study programs through the Department of Defense), web was thought about a personal service to be mostly kept, marketed and offered by personal businesses.
Now, this most likely assisted stimulate fast growth of fiber optic advancement through much of the country than would have otherwise took place, however it looks like we experience more drawbacks than advantages to that method in our neck of the woods. There is some competitors, to be sure, however inadequate that enough people can really take our business in other places when we suffer a considerable and extended disconnection.
Now the bright side is that we have regional and state procedures in the works that might help keep web failures much shorter and less regular. Glenwood Springs Community Broadband is available for some city citizens already and the service is most likely to broaden even more in the coming months and years.
Garfield County is likewise asking the state to do more of their part to help much better link our rural neighborhoods. Earlier this spring, the county commissioners asked the state to speed up the procedure permitting neighborhoods to sign up with on the Colorado Department of Transportation’s fiber network.
Then in May, Gov. Jared Polis signed a law permitting counties and towns to money web service enhancements without very first needing to look for citizens’ approval.
So, it’s really possible that much of us Garfield County citizens might see enhancement in our web service in the next couple of years. Until then, nevertheless, we may wish to hang onto those dirty 56K modems in case we require them for backup service.
The Post Independent editorial board members are Publisher/Editor Peter Baumann and neighborhood agents John Stroud, Mark Fishbein and Amy Connerton.
