Longmont unveils “NextLight” Internet service

LONGMONT – The city of Longmont on Tuesday unveiled branding for its new municipal broadband Internet service and announced that about 500 potential customers will be in the first wave able to sign up for the service beginning Nov. 3.

The city is dubbing the service NextLight in homage to the city’s century-long history of providing electric light as well as its new efforts to provide the “next light” through fiber optics.

The service is rolling out in six phases, with plans to have it available to all residents and businesses in Longmont by 2017. The initial launch area is bounded roughly…