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Fiber internet switchover happening soon

Range Telephone is reluctant to give a firm date for activation of its state-of-the-art fiber internet connections in Sundance. It's coming very soon, said Engineering Supervisor Shoots Veis, but he prefers not to risk disappointing customers considering the delays on the project so far.

"This is as close as we have ever been," Veis told the county commissioners on Wednesday, estimating that the process of cutting accounts over from the old copper lines to the fiber will begin in May.

Veis, the third person to take the helm, admitted that the project management has been "probably less than...