When Durango attracted several former Microsoft employees last year, it got more than just a slight increase in population. Last February, the town got First Class Internet Solutions a small computer company that will be making its way into the local competitive market this year by offering its new wireless, high-speed Internet access. First Class Internet Solutions plans to help other small companies in the area afford the same wireless services and mail-server systems as large companies but for much less money, said Vijay Bastawade, president of the company. Small businesses will have the same power as large businesses without having to spend thousands and thousands of dollars.
Price varies depending on the speed of services the customer wants to buy.
The wireless service would help small businesses like those going into the old Morehart Building on the corner of Second Avenue and Seventh Street in Durango one of First Class Internet Solutions first wireless-service customers, Bastawade said. He said the wireless system eliminates the need for the developers of the building to spend money on installing extra phone lines for computer modems. Instead, the building will have a small box about the size of a home video recorder on top of it with a three-inch antenna pointed toward Smelter Mountain. The broadcast signals sent from the box will be received by an antenna set up on an existing tower on the mountain, which will then direct the signal to First Class Internet Solutions 11-megabyte network. Small businesses inside the buildings will then be able to buy up to 1.5 megabytes each on the company s network, Bastawade said.