Saratoga gets 'competitive edge'

“This is huge for Saratoga. This is the kind of bandwidth that larger communities dream about. This is going to far exceed what we find in Casper or Cheyenne,” Merrit Engebretsen, account executive for Union Telephone, summed up Wednesday evening’s broadband presentation by Union telephone.

Engebretsen added, “I live in Casper and right now I get about 40 megs—which I feel that is pretty good. Here we are talking about being able to offer a gigabit speed to a resident. Then if we need to get into a real business offering like what Rocky (Fiedor, of Saratoga Auto Parts) was talkin...