I had the chance to visit with Gary Jones, UTOPIA’s new sales and marketing guy, Julie Paulson, the new PR flack, and Kirt Sudweeks, the CFO, to get some updates on how things are going to be playing out this building season. I got a pretty good rundown of where… Continue reading
AT&T turns on the caps. http://bit.ly/lWJcJv # @kidclassic It's affecting Murray/Midvale area too. Supposed to be fixed by tomorrow morning, affecting residential customers. @UTOPIAnet # Comcast revenue shifts from video to data. http://bit.ly/ir3Uyj # Federal Judge: an IP address is not a person. http://bit.ly/ir3Uyj # This… is why we fail…. Continue reading
I’ve been delaying writing more about this because I’ve been in the process of talking to people and gathering more information about the legal fight between Chris Hogan and UTOPIA. If you’d like to review the source material yourself, check out both UTOPIA’s filing and Hogan’s filing for yourself. Personally,… Continue reading
I’ve had it confirmed that Infowest, currently a commercial provider, will be participating on UTOPIA as a residential provider as part of the new UIA expansion push. Given that Prime Time, Connected Lyfe, and Fuzecore have all had to bow out for one reason or another, it’s good to know… Continue reading
Word on the street is that the plug is being pulled on Connected Lyfe (or Lyfe Communications, or whatever company name they go by now). Several sources have confirmed that the video head end they purchased from UTOPIA has been returned as they are no longer able to make the… Continue reading
Netflix may now have more customers than Comcast. http://bit.ly/eCB2Jf # Google wants to make money from its fiber project. http://bit.ly/f0QNR6 # Cisco predicts the death of the STB (video): http://bit.ly/iiPslJ # FCC: broadband sucks (and we won't admit that we caused a lot of it). http://bit.ly/hjGTug # 73% of you… Continue reading
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Chris Hogan, one of UTOPIA’s former execs, has filed a suit against the agency over violations of his employment contract. The suit alleges that consulting firm TetraTech was awarded an improper contract for network construction because Executive Director Todd Marriott’s brother is a manger… Continue reading
CenturyLink takes the Qwest name out to the woodshed. http://bit.ly/gRHPsy # Analyst says Google's fiber unlikely to change much of anything on a national level. http://bit.ly/eyoahz # IPv6 uptake still painfully sluggish despite running out of IPv4 addresses. http://bit.ly/htjoFt # Powered by Twitter Tools
After many, many months of inaction, UTOPIA is finally starting to move some more fiber into the ground starting with Centerville. This is the start of wiring up anchor institutions using the federal broadband grants, money that should touch most member cities. It won’t get the fiber all the way… Continue reading
New technique can pin your location from an IP address to within 690 meters. http://bit.ly/ecg8p5 # Powered by Twitter Tools