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October Monthly Update
October 29th, 2019
Exciting things are happening here at UTOPIA Fiber! We are in a period of major growth and have been working rapidly to get fiber to every home and business within our member cities. Here is a breakdown of the progress we have been making: Big news for Orem: we have completed all of OR009 and […]
Read More >Idaho Falls City Council votes to extend high speed fiber network to entire city
October 18th, 2019
The following is a news release from the city of Idaho Falls. IDAHO FALLS — In a unanimous vote at a special City Council meeting Thursday evening, the Idaho Falls City Council moved to continue the expansion the city’s fiber network to provide high speed broadband access throughout the entire City of Idaho Falls. In […]
Read More >UTOPIA Fiber Expanding into New Cities
October 10th, 2018
Woodland Hills Partners with UTOPIA Fiber to Bring Utah’s Best Internet to Residents Woodland Hills, UTAH (October 10, 2018) — UTOPIA Fiber, Utah’s open-access fiber optic network, will bring the fastest internet speeds in the nation to the growing city of Woodland Hills starting in late 2018. Woodland Hills will become the first additional city […]
Read More >UTOPIA Fiber to Partner with Idaho Falls on Fiber Pilot Program
September 28th, 2018
Idaho Falls, ID (September 28, 2018) – UTOPIA Fiber, Utah’s local open-access fiber optic network, have announced that they have partnered with Idaho Falls to design and manage the network for their residential fiber pilot program. This is the first project UTOPIA Fiber will be working on outside their home state of Utah. “We are […]
Read More >Update on Utah’s Open Access UTOPIA – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 223
October 25th, 2016
Community Broadband Networks recently did a podcast about UTOPIA with our CEO, Roger Timmerman and Mayor Karen Cronin of Perry City. Check it out below! https://muninetworks.org/content/update-utahs-open-access-utopia-community-broadband-bits-podcast-223
Read More >Where is Online Education Going?
December 31st, 2012
You may be surprised to learn that “distance learning” is not a new pedagogical technique. What could be described as “correspondence courses” date to the early 18th century, and the University of London offered distance learning degrees more than 150 years ago. Today, technology has taken the concept to new levels of ubiquity, not […]
Read More >Innovation with Fiber
November 14th, 2012
UTOPIA isn’t Google, and Utah isn’t Kansas City, but what is happening in KC provides an instructive lesson on the power of innovation. As Google starts to connect residential customers to its gigabit fiber network, a funny thing is happening: because the roll-out is residential first, start-ups in the area are renting and buying homes […]
Read More >Centerville is Connected!
November 12th, 2012
By Mayor Ron Russell Several years ago, Centerville City joined with 10 other Utah cities to form the UTOPIA fiber optic network. We were pioneers, taking on a project with unknown challenges and the promise of unlimited potential. Like the other cities, we viewed the development of true high-speed fiber-optic connectivity for our citizens as […]
Read More >The Power of Choice
October 30th, 2012
An election is all about choices. Do you want Candidate A or Candidate B? Are you for Proposition 19 or against it? Will Judge John Doe be retained in office or not? To make an election worthwhile, one needs to have alternatives from which to choose. Democracy wouldn’t get very far if there were only […]
Read More >Broadband and Cord Cutting
October 23rd, 2012
As parents, we watch our kids grow up but we don’t notice the big changes in their appearance or stature because we see them every day. Only when seeing someone after a long absence do we really see the striking changes that have occurred. The same is true for technology. Week to week and month […]
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