{"id":97619,"date":"2018-10-07T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fiber-network-survey-to-begin-tuesday-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T21:53:34","slug":"fiber-network-survey-to-begin-tuesday-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fiber-network-survey-to-begin-tuesday-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber network survey to begin Tuesday in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting Tuesday, a company will survey Cortez residents about bringing fiber optic networking to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The telephone survey is part of the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effort to study the prospect of bringing fiber optic network to all homes in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>In May, CCG Engineering of Maryland and Finley Engineering of Tennessee delivered a feasibility study to the Cortez City Council that analyzed existing network infrastructure, customer broadband bills and speeds, and costs of installing a fiber network in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>According to the analysis, a fiber optic network could not be funded by municipal bonds alone and likely would require a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the survey, which will require responses from 350 Cortez residents, will inform City Council on whether to move forward with a fiber project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responses from 350 residents needed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97619"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}