{"id":23415,"date":"2022-06-29T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23415"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:25:30","slug":"has-summit-broadband-broken-their-contact-with-the-city-of-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/has-summit-broadband-broken-their-contact-with-the-city-of-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Summit Broadband broken their contact with the City of Lakeland?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit Broadband, which partnered with the city of Lakeland to provide high-speed internet service to local homes and businesses, has shifted its residential roll-out plans away from individual homes in favor of contracts with homeowner groups. <\/p>\n\n\n

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A peeved Mayor Bill Mutz says he wants answers from the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Coyne, president of Orlando-based Summit<\/a>, told Lakeland city commissioners in February that the company planned to make service available by June (this month) to roughly 5,000 residents of neighborhoods between downtown and Edgewood Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Summit Broadband’s response:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSummit Broadband has been working diligently to launch services in the city of Lakeland. While service to individual homes is not currently available, we are currently offering service to businesses and multi-family communities. In fact, we\u2019re excited to already be serving more than a dozen local businesses in addition to becoming a provider of internet services for the Surf Lakeland project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Bill Mutz said he was not satisfied with that response.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not satisfied with the speed with which Summit is rolling out service to consumers in Lakeland and concerned that they may have the de-emphasized that express concurrent desire of the commission,\u201d he said via email.  \u201cWhereas it has been our goal to provide commercial business with improved Internet service, the consumer emphasis was originally and consistently one of our highest expressed priorities and motivations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued: \u201cI will request that the commission will receive an update from Summit specifically addressing a timing schedule for consumer rollout by area.  A designed delay otherwise is unacceptable from my perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summit\u2019s spokespeople will not talk about the change to multi-family communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the city\u2019s agreement with Summit<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n