Loveland Pulse Municipal Broadband Network Gets Set to Expand

Loveland Pulse, a municipal broadband network in Loveland (CO), has seen considerable success since turning up its first residential customer in June 2020, and the company will be expanding to neighboring communities. Loveland Pulse was formed in 2018 by the city of Loveland and its local utility with the goal of getting high-speed broadband available community-wide. Brieana Reed-Harmel, fiber manager for the company, explained, “The incumbents were picking and choosing the parts of the community they wanted to serve.” It was particularly problematic for the school district, which was unable to do standardized testing for all students at the same time because of capacity constraints. The Loveland Pulse network was funded, in large part, through a municipal bond offering. Loveland Pulse has been deploying GPON and XGS-PON and expects to have service available throughout Loveland in 2023; where the company offered symmetrical speeds up to 10 Gbps from the start.