TCLP's High-Speed Fiber Is Here, With Expansion -- And Competitors -- On The Horizon

By Craig Manning | Sept. 19, 2020

Long a topic of interest in Traverse City, fiber internet is now being installed for the first residential customers -- and could soon become available to many more. After months of delay, a pandemic-forced project pause, and an $800,000 loan from the City of Traverse City, Traverse City Light & Power (TCLP) has officially soft-launched its TCLPfiber network. Meanwhile, private companies like Michigan Broadband Services are building out their own fiber networks in Traverse City – and asking questions about whether public entities, private companies, or a collaboration of both is the best way to deliver fiber internet service to the whole northern Michigan community.

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