Internet service in Western Colorado was so terrible that towns and counties built their own telecom [telecom]

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By Tamara Chuang

Internet outages became a distant memory this month as a good chunk of Western Colorado turned on a new broadband system. But this wasn't built by a typical telecom. It took a band of local governments and partners from 14 rural communities to stitch together the 481-mile network, dubbed "Project Thor."