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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 >Completion of UTOPIA Fiber Network throughout Layton City
September 20th, 2018
Expedited project will give all Layton residents access to the fastest internet in America within 24 months Layton, UTAH (September 20, 2018) – UTOPIA Fiber, Utah’s local fiber internet provider, announced an agreement with Layton City for the rapid completion of UTOPIA Fiber’s network for the residents of Layton. Currently, about half of Layton is […]
Read More >Go Fiber Utah Announced
May 5th, 2014
Go Fiber Utah is a group of cities, organizations and businesses working to bring fiber optic connectivity to Utah. A new site has been established to be an education tool, providing information, research and news about fiber broadband in Utah and nationwide. See more at: Go Fiber Utah
Read More >Google Fiber in Provo
April 18th, 2013
Exciting news out of Provo today. That’s right: We think it’s exciting. Don’t think for a second that UTOPIA feels threatened by the arrival of Google Fiber in Utah. On the contrary, we are very excited about what this means for Provo specifically and Utah generally. Why? In simple terms, we hope—and expect—Google’s presence […]
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 >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 […]
Read More >“Our current incumbent providers are not going to help”
October 3rd, 2012
The website for Wired magazine has an opinion piece on making ultra-high-speed connectivity a reality in the U.S. The piece is written by Susan Crawford, visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, whom we quoted in this blog post. We find ourselves […]
Read More >Fiber-to-the-Home White Paper
September 25th, 2012
The 2012 Fiber-to-the-Home Conference is underway now in Dallas, and Todd Marriott, UTOPIA Executive Director, is presenting tomorrow morning. His topic is “Next Generation Application Deployment: Cracking the Municipal Fiber Nut.” Todd prepped a white paper on the subject, which is available here. It’s a good-size paper, but if you have interest in the technical side […]
Read More >Steve Wozniak and the Lure of Fiber
September 21st, 2012
Few people have more “geek cred” than Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. After all, he’s known to many simply as “Woz.” And, it seems Woz loves the concept of bringing fiber optics to everyone. While in Australia last week for the launch of the iPhone 5, Woz had plenty of nice things to say about the […]
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