By now, NextLight customers are used to being ahead of the game.

When the nation called for faster broadband speeds, NextLight customers already had them. When households needed help paying for internet service, NextLight offered a discount before a federal program was created and has kept providing help after that program ended.

Now the breaking news of the day is net neutrality. And once again, what’s hot news in the headlines is old news in Longmont.

For those who aren’t familiar with the term, net neutrality basically says internet providers have to play fair. They can’t block lawful or nonharmful uses. They can’t speed some internet services up and slow others down based on which ones are willing to pay for better treatment (a practice called “paid prioritization” or simply “Internet fast lanes”).

As a federal rule, it’s come and gone and come again, most recently being revived in April by the Federal Communications Commission. And through all that time, it’s stayed NextLight policy. Our website even says it flat out: “We do not play favorites … All our customers will be able to harness the power of the NextLight internet service to the fullest extent that their equipment and our terms and conditions allow.”

That’s because we’re a community-owned service. You come first.

NextLight customers use the internet for a thousand different things, whether it’s launching a new business, keeping up with homework, or streaming every superhero movie ever made. That’s up to you. We just give you the tools and get out of the way.  (And provide awesome local support if you ever need it, of course.)

If you’re new to NextLight, try us out free for a month and see what unfettered internet is like. If you’re an old hand, you can make the best even better  by trying out our high-speed WiFi6 router, helping you rev up more devices in more of your home with more of NextLight’s fiber-fast goodness.

Either way, you get a service that’s several steps ahead.

And that’s just the way our customers like it.