Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Notes from the iProvo Hearing
Last night, Provo's municipal council heard presentations from Broadweave, Veracity, the energy board and the telcom board on the proposed sale to Broadweave. There was a bit of new information and a lot of council skepticism. I don't have a play-by-play so much as some random thoughts.
Both the energy and telcom boards are eager to [...]
14 Comments » - Posted in Events, iProvo by Jesse
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Details of the Sale of AFCNet
As usual, David Rodeback is on top of the AFCNet situation in American Fork. According to him, Surpha will buy AFCNet for $500,000 and make interest-only payments for the network with a goal to pay it off by the end of 2012. They'll lease fiber capacity from the city from American Fork to Orem [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News, Rumors by Jesse
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Multimedia Edition: Mayor Becker on UTOPIA, Utah Taxes Now Conference on Muni Telecom
Coming to you today is a two-fer of audio on UTOPIA.
First up is a conversation on KCPW's Midday Metro where Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker responds to a caller question on Salt Lake City's future with UTOPIA. He's definitely supportive of local decisions regarding the matter, though he's also cautious about joining because of [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in News, UTOPIA, iProvo by Jesse
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Confirmed: American Fork is Selling AFCNet
It looks like American Fork is going to discuss the sale of AFCNet this Tuesday the 27th at their normal city council meeting. (See City Council Agenda, item 17, PDF.) There's very spare details as to what the purchase price is or if Surpha is still indeed the buyer, so it'd be worth it for [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in News by Jesse
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Open Thread: PacketFront’s Relationship to UTOPIA
Per reader request, I'm opening up a thread to discuss the relationship between PacketFront and UTOPIA.
Some background: Last year, PacketFront purchased DynamicCity, the project management group for UTOPIA. DC also did consulting on projects in Arizona and Palo Alto, CA. PacketFront is a Swedish company that draws on a considerable amount of industry experience from [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in UTOPIA, Website by Jesse
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Broadweave Plans to Replace the Portals for iProvo’s Telephony Woes
Broadweave announced their plan to fix the frequent issues with phone service on iProvo, pointing to deficiencies in the portals provided by World Wide Packets. Their message? An ultimatum to Ciena, the new parent company of World Wide Packets, to fix the firmware in 90 days or they'll start replacing the hardware. The reason? [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Jeers, News, iProvo by Jesse
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Is American Fork Nearing a Deal to Sell AFCNet?
Remember the reports back in September that American Fork was negotiating the sale of their municipal broadband network to Surpha of Orem? According to a post at LocalCommentary.com, those negotiations are about to bear fruit. According to David Rodeback, Surpha has become an ISP on the network and has acquired customers from at least [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Rumors by Jesse
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Broadweave’s Double-Talk on Equipment Ownership
Broadweave has repeatedly hammered on the existing providers on iProvo for not owning their own phone-switching equipment. According to their statements, the breakdown in call quality and reliability comes from iProvo, the retailer and the outsourced voice provider all pointing fingers at each other. It's funny, then to hear that Broadweave currently outsources its video [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Jeers, iProvo by Jesse
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Is Broadweave Dumping Most of the Veracity Customers?
A quote from Saturday's Daily Herald seems to indicate that this is the case:
"Broadweave has a CLEC or Competitive Local Exchange Carrier relationship with Qwest, and will therefore not be a service provider on Qwest's network," [Broadweave CEO Steve Christensen] said.
This seems fishy on a few levels. About 85-90% of Veracity's customer base exists [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in News, iProvo by Jesse
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Broadweave’s Double-Talk on Open Networks
Broadweave has repeatedly insisted that the only way for iProvo to work is if it becomes a closed network with one provider operating both the retail and wholesale operations. Perhaps, then, they can explain why it is that they agreed to "provide access to alternate service providers for a fee" as part of their utility [...]
