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AT&T expands in Colorado as Lumen offloads home broadband business

The Colorado Sun, Approved, State / May 22, 2025 / AT&T, Broadband, CenturyLink, Digital Infrastructure, Lumen, Telecom Acquisition

AT&T’s $5.75 billion purchase of Lumen Technologies home fiber-internet business will impact 1 million customers nationwide, including an undisclosed number in Colorado who buy fiber service from Quantum Fiber, a brand that originated under CenturyLink.

The deal, pending regulatory approval, was announced Wednesday, and means AT&T will step into the consumer world of fiber internet service for the first time, at least here in Colorado.

Besides picking up Lumen’s Colorado market, AT&T will add customers in 10 other states for a total of 1 million fiber customers. Lumen’s current network could serve 4 million households if every home ordered it.

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Colorado to use $826 million in federal funds to expand high-speed internet availability

DENVER7, Approved, State / June 12, 2024 / Broadband, High-speed Internet

Colorado is another step closer to providing more high-speed internet access across the state.

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Bill to boost rural broadband, opposed by Polis administration, dies in committee

coloradopolitics.com, Approved, State / May 4, 2024 / Broadband, Legislative Session

A panel of Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have prohibited the Colorado Department of Transportation from charging annual fees for right-of-way access to deploy broadband networks in some of the most remote areas of rural Colorado.

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Open letter to the sponsors of SB24-091, and members of the Joint Technology Committee

Approved, Commentary, State / March 20, 2024 / Broadband

My name is Cory Gaines and I’m a resident of Logan County, Colo. I am one of a very few lucky people to live in a town where I can get broadband internet, but I know many in locations similar to mine are not so fortunate.

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Legislators at odds on broadband right-of-way fees

coloradopolitics.com, Approved, State / March 17, 2024 / Broadband

While state broadband officials ready their action plan to expand fiber to 99% of Colorado, a dispute over the amount of fees that telecommunications companies must pay to install lines along public rights of way has stalled dueling legislative efforts to define those fees.

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