2C or not 2C isn’t the question

[Commentary] Have you moved to Longmont yet?” Susan Wisecup, business manager for Longmont Power and Communications, is really asking. She’s ecstatic about the century-old public utility in Longmont building Colorado’s most cutting-edge Internet project. With upload and download speeds of 1 gigabit per second for around $50 per month, soon Longmont residents will be able to download entire HD movies in 10 seconds while paying the best price in the state. Construction began in August and customers can begin signing up for Longmont’s new service in November. The utility plans to connect 25 percent of the city within a year and all of Longmont by 2017. Boulder Chamber of Commerce Public Affairs Director Angelique Espinoza concurs that relocating from Boulder to Longmont is a conceivable choice businesses may make in the coming years. That’s why she and the Chamber are leading a low-key coalition of local business and public interest groups supporting ballot issue 2C, which seeks to affirm the City of Boulder’s right to be proactive about improving Internet access within city limits.