New wireless network to be installed in Fort Collins

FORT COLLINS — A wireless communications company with a national footprint has received preliminary approval to install a wireless network in Fort Collins using public rights of way and infrastructure on which to mount equipment.

The Fort Collins City Council gave the city manager authorization to sign an agreement with Crown Castle Fiber LLC. The Houston-based company, which bills itself as the largest shared communications infrastructure company in the U.S., will build out a fiber network and likely provide access to it to companies such as Verizon.

Documents provided to the City Council noted the Verizon connection: “Toward the end of wrapping…