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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 >Beehive Broadband
July 10th, 2013
Beehive Broadband released a statement on June 10th regarding joining the UTOPIA network. Beehive Broadband Joins the UTOPIA Network Lake Point, Utah 07-10-2013 An affiliate of 50-year-old rural telephone company, Beehive Telephone, Beehive Broadband has partnered with UTOPIA to provide fiber optic internet connections to residential and business customers within the UTOPIA network cities, which […]
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 >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 >UTOPIA Statement on Provo City, Google Fiber Partnership Announcement
April 18th, 2013
UTOPIA member cities and employees congratulate Provo City on the opportunity to become the third Google Fiber city in the U.S. “This announcement validates the vision our member cities have been working toward since they undertook the project of delivering ultrahigh-speed broadband to their constituents 11 years ago,” said Todd Marriott, Executive Director of UTOPIA. […]
Read More >Executive of troubled UTOPIA sees hope in Google Fiber deal
April 17th, 2013
The head of Utah’s other municipally run fiber-optic Internet network, UTOPIA, said Wednesday’s news that Google Fiber is coming to Provo is “music to our ears.” “It does validate the value of these networks,” said Todd Marriott, executive director of the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency. He added that the nation needs ultra-fast gigabit Internet […]
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