Municipal broadband spreading at speed of light

As proud as Longmont’s 103-year-old municipal utility is of the community high-speed broadband system it began installing in November, its public-relations arm can’t compete with some of the effusive comments its new customers wrote on its Facebook page:

“It’s so fast, my computer can’t write to the hard drive fast enough,” wrote one, while another gushed that “It’s so fast, it ripped my face off!”

President Obama signaled a faceoff with telecommunications companies in November when he outlined a plan to spur broadband competition while safeguarding “net neutrality” – helping ensure that no one company can act as a gatekeeper to digital…