Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Qwest Planning Major FTTH Project?
Qwest has apparently started soliciting bids for new fiber equipment for a new major project, quite possibly a new fiber network designed to compete with projects like UTOPIA. They've already been trying out fiber in the South Jordan subdivision of Daybreak, and this would be a major escalation likely designed to try going head-to-head with [...]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Wilson NC Fiber Rolls Forward
The municipal fiber project in Wilson, NC is moving forward as the city start accepting bids on construction. Plans are to complete the network for $28M within 3 years,not too far off the mark from iProvo's network. With backing from Embarq (formerly Sprint Local), it looks like this project is going to be on solid [...]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Lawrence Lessig Talks Muni Fiber
Lawrence Lessig, a long time technology pundit, writes in Wired this month about how he was wrong to think that regulation would solve the monopoly problem with Microsoft. He continues that train of thought by proposing that maybe Net Neutrality can be saved not by regulations, but by more open networks like municipal fiber projects. [...]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
UTOPIA Enters Phase 2
UTOPIA is now starting construction on Phase 2 of the project while putting the finishing touches on the Phase 1 construction. Phase 2 will be utilizing federal grants for rural broadband, so folks in Brigham City and Tremonton can look forward to the high-speed service Real Soon Now(TM). Once construction is complete in the 11 [...]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Provo Mayor Rebuts Report
Provo Mayor Lewis Billings wrote an op-ed in the Provo Daily Herald rebutting the Reason Foundation's report slamming iProvo. His conclusion? They're gaming a project in its infancy, calling it a failure before it has even really gotten off of the ground. He points out that construction only recently finished and that the degree of [...]
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Think Tank Slams iProvo, Municipal Broadband
The Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank from California, has released two studies recent slamming iProvo specifically and municipal broadband in general. They make a solid case that city-run WiFi networks (as with all WiFi networks) face rapid obsolescence that a city probably can't keep up with. However, they go well off the mark [...]
