ARCHIVED  November 17, 2000

Plains towns wire slowly for speed

Bandwidth shy of need for business

As important as Internet links are to Front Range urbanites, imagine how important the connections are to residents and businesses in small towns surrounded by 400 square miles of wheat fields on Colorado’s eastern tier.

Physical isolation is as much a feature of the Eastern Plains landscape as windmills and barbed wire. An effort to string another brand of wire – fiber-optic cable – along county roadsides is cutting the distance.

But not fast enough.

“We’ve got to make this kind of an investment in our communities,´ said Lisa Noble, executive director of the Morgan County Economic Development…

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