> 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

> 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.