Always wanted to be a LPB? A UK ISP will let you buy your way to the head of the line. http://bit.ly/bCMf0w # Behold, the $60 quadruple play… in France. http://bit.ly/bCmbHW # Dish serves up streaming. http://bit.ly/ce7Qq1 # Does your Sprint signal suck? Maybe you can get a free femtocell…. Continue reading
Both the Salt Lake Tribune and Daily Herald have run articles about closed-door meetings between Provo Mayor John Curtis and members of the municipal council. These meetings included only a few council members at a time so as to avoid the requirement to hold open meetings. An e-mail from the… Continue reading
Some good thoughts on Net Neutrality from @SenatorSteveU. http://bit.ly/9erXb2 # Verizon is really, REALLY close to doing gigabit on FIOS. http://bit.ly/aqWw3n # Broadband stimulus winners are saying "no thanks" to the money. http://bit.ly/cUpELs (via @CJSettles) # Surprise! Marketed broadband speeds nowhere near the actual. http://bit.ly/bCXWm8 # Need a primer on… Continue reading
Now that UTOPIA has $16.2M in federal funding, the question is what it’s going to do. The money itself is specifically to hook up “anchor institutions” such as schools, libraries, healthcare facilities, and government buildings. This money will be used to run fiber to over 400 buildings in Perry, Payson,… Continue reading
The Obama Administration announced today a new round of broadband stimulus funding that includes $16.2M for UTOPIA. That money can go a really long way towards deploying more of the network in UTOPIA’s footprint and can, at the average install cost, cover around 5400 additional homes. UTOPIA plans to hold… Continue reading
As you may have seen, the Broadband Bytes feature is working again. I finally got Twitter Tools to start posting the weekly digests. Unfortunately, it went back a bit further than just the last week and made a ridiculously long post. It should be back to normal next Saturday.
WEST VALLEY CITY – August 10, 2010 – The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA; http://www.utopianet.org) today announced that PAETEC (http://paetec.com) is that most recent service provider to join the fully-fiber, open access network. PAETEC offers business-class customers a comprehensive suite of data, voice, and IP services, as well as… Continue reading
Salt Lake City Weekly just ran a story on Qwest’s attempts to limit competition and it looks like XMission isn’t alone. The CFO of Fibernet, Lee Livingston, says they have also experienced getting cut off from newer infrastructure and getting their customers poached. Tellingly, the Qwest PR flack tasked with… Continue reading