A budding broadband provider is seeking approval to install fiber lines along the 228th Avenue corridor and Sahalee Way Northeast in Sammamish.

The Sammamish City Council has until the end of May to make a decision to allow Wave, or Astound Broadband LLC, a video, Internet and phone provider along the West Coast — and Comcast Corp. competitor — within the city.

“We’re creating a new, very robust fiber network throughout the Pacific Northwest,” Wave Executive Vice President Jim Penney said during Tuesday’s city council meeting. “We hope to start construction on the network in the spring or summer of this year.”

The company applied for a telecommunications franchise agreement with the city in January to install roughly 85,000 feet of fiber. This chunk of fiber, using existing cell towers owned by various cellular companies, would connect the company’s planned network, which will span from San Francisco Bay to the Canadian border.

Wave began as a small upstart cable company in 2003, headquartered in Kirkland, and was determined to compete with Comcast. It now serves more than 415,000 residential and business customers in Washington, Oregon, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Wave launched CondoInternet in Seattle in December, offering a 1 gigabit per second connection at low, fixed rates.

“As we do the construction, we’re planning for the future and in particular planning for the services that we want to render for the communities through which we pass initially, Sammamish of course being one of those,” Penny said. “Eventually our hope is to provide residential services.”

Sammamish councilmembers were quick to say they are among those unsatisfied with Comcast and are interested in having a competitor in town.

The city has 120 days to approve or deny the applicant after submission, according to state law. Due to federal law, the city doesn’t have much room to deny the company its franchise agreement, short of a public safety issue.

The agreement would give Wave the authority to construct, maintain, operate and repair fiber optic broadband telecommunications system in the public rights of way.

Wave will have 30 days following council’s approval to accept the 10-year franchise agreement. The city would retain the full authority over public rights of way and the power to enforce laws.

Council will discuss the issue further on May 19 and is expected to take action on the issue.