Look Front Range, no wires

If all goes according to plan, residents, businesses, institutions and visitors in 10 Front Range communities will have Wi-Fi access anywhere in those cities by mid-2008.

In September, a partnership of 10 Colorado communities – Arvada, Boulder, Broomfield, Golden, Lakewood, Louisville, Northglenn, Superior, Thornton and Wheat Ridge – formed Colorado Wireless Communities, a group committed to providing broadband wireless technology in the Front Range.

A request for proposals should be released early next year, with vendor selection later in the spring, said Chris Puccio, director of information technology for the city of Boulder.

Like many other citywide Wi-Fi projects, Colorado Wireless Communities, which…