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American Communications Services Inc.'s building of a multimillion dollar telecommunications network to provide local phone service is progressing in Colorado Springs.
The Maryland-based company has spent $2.8 million building infrastructure and its first synchronous optical network ring to provide local phone service in the Colorado Springs metropolitan area. General manager Michael Trujillo said ACSI plans to spend approximately the same amount in both 1997 and 1998 expanding its network.
Currently the company has one mile of its fiber optic network in place in the central business district of downtown Colorado Springs. It was activated Jan. 28. ACSI will begin wireless deployment of services to the northern business districts in the next couple of weeks, Trujillo said, with the fiber optic ring being scheduled for completion in the next four months.
"The wireless allows us to respond quickly and build to [the customer]," Trujillo said at a recent open house.
The northern ring will encompass the...