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Luminate Broadband is a subsidiary of Yampa Valley Electric Association (YVEA). YVEA recognized a need within their membership for high-speed, reliable internet service. Just like YVEA provided electricity to Northwest Colorado over 80 years, they have now taken on the challenge of providing high speed, fiber internet to our rural and underserved community. Luminate Broadband…

Why not fiber? It is faster, offers symmetrical upload and download speeds, holds up better to weather, is more reliable, future-ready, and more secure. That is just the beginning. We could go on and on about why our fiber network is superior to other types of internet connections, such as dial-up, DSL, cable, and satellite.…

No. Just no. We don’t do teaser rates, data caps, throttling or any other shenanigans.

The Internet is a massive global communications network. As its name suggests, it’s more than just one network. It’s a series of thousands of inter-connected networks. While no one person or organization owns the Internet itself, each Internet service provider (ISP) typically owns its own network, like Luminate Broadband! It buys and installs the specialized…