The company partnering with the city of Lakeland on broadband Internet blames city red tape for delays in serving residents.
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Lakeland Broadband Partner Reveals Tentative Prices, Initial Service Areas
The company partnering with the city of Lakeland to expand broadband Internet options for homes and businesses today gave its first preview of how much the service will cost and where it will be available first.
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City Moves Toward Formal Hearings on Broadband as New Potential Partners Emerge
Justin Troller, who has devoted much of his final year as a city commissioner pushing for a broadband utility, came away from his next-to-last meeting today with a bigger win than he was angling for. His fellow commissioners rejected his motion to hold a public referendum on an internet utility, but went along with a […]
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Commission Candidates Cool to City Broadband
When Justin Troller leaves the City Commission at the end of the year, it’s unlikely his replacement will have the same zeal for a city broadband utility that he has. At a forum today, three of the four candidates running for the at-large seat he is vacating shied away from getting the city into the […]
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Broadband Forum: Speakers Differ; Commissioners Seek Partnership
City commissioners heard Tuesday evening from 21 citizens with strong opinions about whether the city should launch a broadband utility at a public forum attended by about 100 people. But commissioners spoke last, so they had the last word. And the words were: public-private partnership.
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Tonight: Learn About Municipal Broadband; Give Your Opinion
Do you have an opinion on whether the city of Lakeland should build on its 330 miles of fiber-optic cable to launch a municipal broadband utility? For those who want to express an opinion — and those who just want to learn more — the city of Lakeland is holding a public forum tonight. Here […]
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BROADBAND: The latest idea for testing ways to expand the city of Lakeland’s fiber optics network is a pilot program (appropriately named) at airport businesses, city commissioners learned Tuesday. However, some commissioners would like residences included in any tests of high-speed Internet. DOWNTOWN PARKING: As commissioners move toward a decision on new parking in the city center, Jim […]
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Proponents of higher Internet speeds in Lakeland are divided over the name Gigabit Lakeland and how far to push city government to expand its fiber network to businesses and residents. An advocacy group questions a city commissioner’s motives, and the commissioner says the citizen’s group needs to be more pragmatic. Catapult Lakeland has incubated several […]