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Possible UTOPIA partnership only in earliest stages
December 13th, 2013
This article originally was published in the Davis County Clipper on December 13th. By: Jennifer Wardell CENTERVILLE – Though UTOPIA officials say that a private Internet company is considering joining forces with the struggling fiber-optic network, the potential partnership is still only in the exploratory stages. Elected officials serving on the UTOPIA board were asked to […]
Read More >UTOPIA 2.0
November 25th, 2013
This article first ran in the Standard Examiner on November 24th. Certain inaccurate charges have recently been leveled in media accounts regarding member cities of UTOPIA, their leadership, and compliance with GRAMA and open meetings law that must not be left unanswered. It is true that we held a series of confidential discussions with member-city […]
Read More >Hamlet Homes Breaks Ground on New Townhome Community
September 18th, 2013
UTOPIA is thrilled to be a part of Hamlet Homes, newest community, Carlisle Place. CITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKE, UT (September 17, 2013) – Officials from Hamlet Homes (www.hamlethomes.com) and the City of South Salt Lake broke ground today on a new townhome community called Carlisle Place located at the intersection of 700 […]
Read More >UTOPIA Service Providers Reduce Price of Utah’s Fastest Internet Connection
September 15th, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 16, 2013 – Today UTOPIA, the open-access fiber-optic network formed by a group of Utah cities to provide critical advanced communications infrastructure to their residents, together with its Internet Service Providers, announced a drastic price reduction of its blazing fast 1 gigabit-per-second residential service. Starting today, seven Utah based Internet […]
Read More >Survey ranks Utah tops in West for broadband Internet speeds
July 30th, 2013
This article was originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune on July 29, 2013 by Vince Horiuchi The next time you’re streaming “House of Cards” on Netflix without a hiccup or waiting for the show to buffer, be thankful you live in Utah. The Beehive state has the fastest broadband Internet speeds of any Western […]
Read More >Not Much Has Changed
July 19th, 2013
Remember the annoying noise your computer would make when you jumped onto AOL? How many fights were caused when someone started using the phone in the middle of your page loading? Or vice versa, how many important phone calls did you miss when someone was on the Internet? How much has changed since the days […]
Read More >Layton City Congratulates Provo on Becoming a Gigabit Community
May 11th, 2013
An editorial by Steve Curtis that ran in the Salt Lake Tribune on May 11, 2013. Layton congratulates Provo on the opportunity the Google Fiber partnership will bring to its residents and on them joining other cities in becoming a gigabit community. Provo’s residents will be able to appreciate the benefits and […]
Read More >What Now for Murray and UTOPIA?
May 8th, 2013
This article originally ran in the Murray Journal on May 8, 2013 by Peri Kinder When the Murray City Council voted against providing nearly $170,000 to UTOPIA for operating costs, it left many city leaders and residents wondering what happens next for the partnership between the city and the beleaguered Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure […]
Read More >Behind Orem’s Actions Regarding UTOPIA
March 4th, 2013
On Wednesday, the Tribune reported on actions taken this week in Orem regarding next steps for UTOPIA, the fiber-optic network backed by 11 member cities. The purpose of Tuesday’s meeting, which was properly noticed as a discussion, not a public hearing, was for the City Council to receive information about UTOPIA and provide direction to […]
Read More >UTOPIA is committed to building the future
February 27th, 2013
The statement below was written by Wayne Pyle, City Manager for West Valley City and chair of the UTOPIA board. It appeared on 2-27 in the Deseret News as an OpEd. The current debate over the future of UTOPIA is not one of philosophy, whether we should continue, private versus public sector, or any of a […]
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