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Holy cow that's great! I sure hope that means they can easily expand to Salt Lake City (about 50 miles North of there—and where I am) after building the infrast

Holy cow that's great! I sure hope that means they can easily expand to Salt Lake City (about 50 miles North of there—and where I am) after building the infrastructure there. There is already a fiber ISP in the area called Utopia who are in cities near here, but have been disallowed into the bigger cities (Provo and Salt Lake) apparently due to lobbying by the Qwest / CenturyLink and Comcast ISPs. I wonder if this announcement has anything to do with the fact that Comcast recently doubled my speeds (from 25/5Mbps to 50/10Mbps)

nobleach 13y ago
Utopia is around 1Gbps for $600 though, right? I actually work right across the street from their facility on Redwood Rd.
- backwardm 13y ago
  Not sure about 1Gbps speeds—that always seemed so out of reach to me, I never paid attention. Their normal residential speed was said to be about $70 / month for 50Mbps up and down.
austenallred 13y ago
"Holy Cow" - confirmed, we have a Utahn here.
- backwardm 13y ago
  Ha ha... I'm not your typical "Oh my heck" Utahn though—I do drop the hard swears when appropriate, just not online.
  - vyrotek 13y ago
    It's ok man, I've got your back. I'm the OP of this submission and I'm from Lehi of all places. :)
    - austenallred 13y ago
      From Springville, live in Provo, so I certainly can't talk. Just wanted to point it out :)
    - SoftwareMaven 13y ago
      I'm honestly a little surprised to find another Lehite here. We could have a two-person meet up. :) On a side note, I added my name/zip code to the request page. Anything we can do to let them know there is demand further north is good.
eco 13y ago
> apparently due to lobbying by the Qwest / CenturyLink and Comcast ISPs. You don't need any conspiracy to explain why it didn't come to every city in the area. There were huge bonds associated with UTOPIA membership that the city counsels were afraid of. How UTOPIA has played out shows the cities that opted-out made the right decision. It's been a financial disaster (and I say this as a consumer who had high hopes for it). Just a couple links I quickly Googled can explain in more detail how bad UTOPIA's finances are: http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/08/07/utopia-financial-audit-fail/ http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/08/07/utopia-financial-aud... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/54928063-79/utopia-network-cities-lawmakers.html.csp http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/54928063-79/utopia-networ... UTOPIAs pitch to the cities was based in subscription rates absolutely divorced from reality. I can't believe they got any cities on board. I'm holding out hope that maybe Google just buys up UTOPIA like they did with iProvo and turns it into Google Fiber and then just extends it throughout the entire valley. I don't know if UTOPIA could actually be sold like that though.

nobleach 13y ago

Utopia is around 1Gbps for $600 though, right? I actually work right across the street from their facility on Redwood Rd.

backwardm 13y ago
Not sure about 1Gbps speeds—that always seemed so out of reach to me, I never paid attention. Their normal residential speed was said to be about $70 / month for 50Mbps up and down.

austenallred 13y ago

"Holy Cow" - confirmed, we have a Utahn here.

backwardm 13y ago
Ha ha... I'm not your typical "Oh my heck" Utahn though—I do drop the hard swears when appropriate, just not online.
- vyrotek 13y ago
  It's ok man, I've got your back. I'm the OP of this submission and I'm from Lehi of all places. :)
  - austenallred 13y ago
    From Springville, live in Provo, so I certainly can't talk. Just wanted to point it out :)
  - SoftwareMaven 13y ago
    I'm honestly a little surprised to find another Lehite here. We could have a two-person meet up. :) On a side note, I added my name/zip code to the request page. Anything we can do to let them know there is demand further north is good.

eco 13y ago

> apparently due to lobbying by the Qwest / CenturyLink and Comcast ISPs. You don't need any conspiracy to explain why it didn't come to every city in the area. There were huge bonds associated with UTOPIA membership that the city counsels were afraid of. How UTOPIA has played out shows the cities that opted-out made the right decision. It's been a financial disaster (and I say this as a consumer who had high hopes for it). Just a couple links I quickly Googled can explain in more detail how bad UTOPIA's finances are: http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/08/07/utopia-financial-audit-fail/ http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/08/07/utopia-financial-aud... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/54928063-79/utopia-network-cities-lawmakers.html.csp http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/54928063-79/utopia-networ... UTOPIAs pitch to the cities was based in subscription rates absolutely divorced from reality. I can't believe they got any cities on board. I'm holding out hope that maybe Google just buys up UTOPIA like they did with iProvo and turns it into Google Fiber and then just extends it throughout the entire valley. I don't know if UTOPIA could actually be sold like that though.