Why Nimbus
Fast internet, local accountability, and no contract games.
A local company, not a Wall Street one
Nimbus is owned and run by the people who live here, and it’s self-funded. We don’t answer to investors, private equity, or a boardroom in another state. We’re small enough that we don’t even qualify for the federal grants the big fiber builders chase, so we grow the network out of our own pocket, within our means, and we put existing customers first.
Our owner was born in Durango with family roots in Mancos, and our crew is local too, with generational ties to Cortez and Dolores. When you pay your Nimbus bill, that money stays in the community instead of flowing out to a national carrier. You’re supporting your own neighbors.
No contracts, no caps, no games
Every Nimbus plan is month to month. No contracts, no early-termination traps, no data caps, and no throttling. If we ever stop earning your business, you’re free to go. We’d rather keep you by being good than by locking you in.
Local people who actually show up
When something goes wrong, you don’t get a call center and a script. You get a local technician who heads up the tower, usually the same day. About 95% of issues get resolved right over the phone, and the rest get a truck and a person. We live here too. We see you at City Market.
Radically honest about outages
Most providers go quiet when the network hiccups. We do the opposite. When there’s an outage, we publish a plain-English “Reason For Outage” report explaining exactly what happened and what we did about it. Our rule of thumb: we’d rather share too much than not enough.
We go where the wires don’t
Our wireless network reaches ranches, canyons, and remote homes that fiber and cable gave up on. If you’ve been told you’re too far out, you’re exactly who we built this for.
Built to survive rural Colorado
Out here, the internet is only as reliable as the power and the weather allow. That’s why our towers run on solar with battery backup and redundant connections, so they keep working through storms, ice, and grid outages. Our network has come through hard winters with no weather-related downtime.
Quality over quantity, on purpose
The big providers cram as many customers as possible onto each connection. We do the opposite, deliberately under-subscribing our network and even pausing new installs when needed to protect the speed of the customers we already have. Quality never takes a back seat to growth.
Woven into the community
When COVID shut things down in 2020, we built a completely free public WiFi network in Mancos so families could keep working and kids could keep learning. Other companies pitched the town paid solutions that ran into the thousands. We just put it up, quietly let people know it was there, and let them use it.
We also work with Mancos United to keep families connected when they otherwise couldn’t be. Any service ordered through Mancos United for home or remote education is provided free of charge. We’re not chasing those connections for the money. We do it because they’re our neighbors.
We take on the jobs no one else will
Some of the work we’re proudest of makes no money at all. Invited by local ditch boards and the Mancos Conservation District, we took on metering the Mancos watershed, learning the ins and outs of IoT and SCADA to do it. Working with Gary Kennedy, superintendent of the Mancos Water Conservancy District, we built a system that lets him check the flow at the outlet of Jackson Gulch Dam from his phone, instead of driving to the powerhouse or waiting hours for the next satellite report.
Out here we say whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting over, so getting it right matters. Five pilot sites are already in, and we’ll keep installing until all 52 ditch diversions in the Mancos watershed are accurately and reliably metered.
That same engineering shows up in our commercial work. One build we’re especially proud of is the private LTE network we delivered to Fort Lewis College’s historic Old Fort campus near Hesperus, its agricultural education site. A ten mile, 6 GHz microwave backhaul carries the connection to campus, which then broadcasts to the housing units over CBRS, giving students campus-wide service at speeds well over 150 Mbps.
Engineered, not outsourced
The same people who answer your call plan the towers, climb them, and solve the hard problems, from a canyon on the edge of nowhere to a private network for a college campus.
Curious how it all works under the hood? Take a look at our network.
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Tell us where you need service and a local team member will reach out to confirm coverage and walk you through next steps. No contracts, no pressure.