Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
UTOPIA to Use Special Assessment Areas to Extend Reach
UTOPIA has been holding a series of open houses in Brigham City and revealed a new tool in their toolbox for extended their reach: the Special Assessment Area (SAA). The short of it is if you can get around 35% of your neighbors to opt into an SAA, a bond will be created for the [...]
25 Comments » - Posted in Cheers, News, UTOPIA by Jesse
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
UTOPIA Video Coming Soon; Prime Time Scrambling to do STB Replacements
Good news out of UTOPIA: the video product will be ready to launch as early as next week. Service providers will reportedly have a list of prices and channel lineups by Saturday in preparation for reselling to customers. I don’t have a list of the channel line-up, but I would bet it’s going to be [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Cheers, News, UTOPIA by Jesse
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The Recent Downtime
Sorry about the recent downtime, folks. The short of it is I don’t know why it happened, but rebooting my VM fixed it. I suspect my hosting company, Slicehost, did another unplanned reboot which more-or-less messed everything up. At least Apache didn’t require a full rebuild this time around.
No Comments » - Posted in Website by Jesse
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Why Cable Fears The Internet
If you’re a content distributor, odds are that you and the Internet aren’t really on speaking terms these days. The recording, movie, and publishing industries all blame it for sagging sales, declining revenues, and shuttering up operations, even in cases where it just isn’t so. (I’m looking at you, Hollywood.) The problem is that most [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Essays by Jesse
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Is Broadweave Charging Big Install Fees?
A blog post showed up in my Google Alerts from a Provo resident who claims that Broadweave may be charging big-time install fees for customers not already wired to iProvo. Per the poster’s account, they called on behalf of a neighbor and was told that any home not already hooked up would be assessed a [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Rumors, iProvo by Jesse
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Broadweave: No Cash for New Subs, Reserve Will Still Be Used for Bond Payments
The Daily Herald quotes Broadweave’s acting CEO David Moon as saying that Broadweave doesn’t have the capital to agressively sign up new customers right now. The money required to hook up hundreds of new customers each month just isn’t there and they plan to continue making bond payments from the reserve fund for the next [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Jeers, News, iProvo by Jesse
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Provo Gets Black Eye Over Sale of iProvo
The Society of Professional Journalists gave Provo an award, but not the kind they would want to get. The city received the 2009 Black Hole Award for repeatedly refusing to provide documents concerning the sale of iProvo to reporters from the Salt Lake Tribune. The failure to provide documents prevented newspapers and citizens from being [...]
