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A 2005 state law required every local government to ask voters for permission to build broadband.
Wh more than $200,000 in 2009, the measure failed by 12 percentage points.
The city won approval again two years later for a $45.3 million bond to build the citywide service.
As Seader ember, 122 towns and about 40 counties had opted out of the law.
Colorado cities and towns voted by a large majority to opt out of a referendum on fiber internet.
The telecom industry was open to ending the referendums, but always asked for something in return.
Colorado Broadband Office estim U.S. the cost for a ballot measure was betw 2009 $5,000 and $40,000.
Colorado Cable Ass Longmont didn't protest the passage of Senate Bill 183, which repealed.
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