Pardon the musical interlude. But for NextLight customers, there’s been a lot to sing about this year and more than a few blessings to count. So, with the holidays coming close and 2025 almost at an end, here’s a few numbers to unwrap.
Seniors Using Computers
83 percent of our NextLight customers have speeds of one gigabit or faster, letting all of you rock the internet while playing Fortnite, holding a seven-state video conference for work, or downloading every Hallmark Christmas movie ever. That’s especially impressive since 67 percent of Longmont currently gets NextLight’s fiber goodness. That’s a lot of homes and businesses, including some folks who normally wouldn’t be able to afford internet.
1,034 Internet Assistance Program customers that we celebrated in April, one year after launching that locally funded discount as a helping hand. We see a lot of those folks at the… 20 different community events we sponsored, including the awesome Day of the Dead festivities that celebrated their 25th anniversary this year.
Those enthusiastic crowds are also a big part of the 20 awards that NextLight has won in its history, including five new ones this year! Awesome customer support helped gain NextLight a number of Reader’s Choice honors such as the best municipal provider and the best internet provider for home offices, along with an overall Best ISP ranking of no. 3 in the nation.
That’s a lot for a provider that’s just 11 years old this year, thanks to 13,316 long-ago voters, who gave us permission to build out from Longmont’s 17–mile-long core fiber loop and create a 742-mile (and counting) network that’s still No. 1 in the hearts of Longmont. All that we’re missing is a partridge in a pear tree. But there’s always 2026.
We’ll see you in the new year, with still more NextLight goodness to share!