Lancaster city’s computer users may want to mark Feb. 27 on their calendars.

That’s when you can learn more about when you can sign up for LanCity Connect, the new fast, fiber-optic broadband network being deployed in the city.

Over the past two years, MAW Communications has laid more than 3,000 miles of fiber-optic strands along routes totaling about 30 miles, and set up 98 access points, as part of the municipal broadband project first announced in February 2015, company officials told City Council Tuesday.

As promised, the network is blazingly fast, with top upload and download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.

MAW’s presentation was livestreamed; a video replay is available on the city’s Facebook page.

This spring, the company will begin connecting residential users. It plans to divide the city into sections, then connect all the customers in one section before proceeding to the next.

The whole process is expected to take roughly 18 months, with about three months per section.

It’s important for everyone who’s interested to sign up, said city Chief of Staff Pat Brogan and MAW’s customer service director, Mindy Wiczkowski, the daughter of company president Frank Wiczkowski.

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MAW wants to prioritize areas where demand is strongest. The more customers there are in a given area, the more efficient the hookup process and the lower the cost.

The city and MAW are planning a publicity campaign, Brogan said. The administration is especially hoping for more interest in the south end of the city. Unlike the more affluent northwest, pre-registrations in the south were relatively sparse, despite an intensive outreach effort.

Make sure you know when your neighborhood is being hooked up, Mindy Wiczkowski emphasized. If you miss your phase, you’ll have to wait till the rest of the city is completed before you have another chance to join.

Interested city residents can find out more about the program and sign up on the LanCity Connect website, www.lancityconnect.com.

There are four pricing tiers. For low-income households — determined based on federal poverty guidelines — LanCity Connect plans to offer discounts on the lowest tier. The details are being finalized, Brogan and Wiczkowski said: Interested parties can call (844) 526-2489 for more information.

At the same time it hooks up users, MAW will be building out phase two of the network, MAW operations director Brian Kelly said.

That will add another 3,000-plus miles of fiber optic strands and more than 80 additional access points.

Lancaster has entered into a public-private partnership with MAW for the broadband network. The city plans to use it for various services such as remote water meter reading, traffic signal control and data transmission for the Lancaster Safety Coalition’s network of security cameras.

The city will also share in revenues. Patrick Hopkins, the city’s director of administrative services, will brief City Council on that aspect later this month.