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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 […]
Read More >“Wisdom and Knowledge, Diffused Generally”
September 18th, 2012
Yesterday in Orem, Utah Valley University cut the ribbon on its new Center for Constitutional Studies. Not coincidentally, yesterday was Constitution Day—the 225th anniversary of the day when the U.S. Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention. As part of the festivities, the Center welcomed David McCullough, world-renowned author and historian, whose works include 1776 […]
Read More >Apple’s Innovation Paradigm and Broadband Connectivity
September 12th, 2012
With the launch today of the iPhone 5, as well as redesigned iPods, Apple has once again proven that technology is never static. Innovation is the name of the game, and companies who get behind the curve (yes, we mean you, Nokia, RIM) do so at their peril. While in the grand scheme of things […]
Read More >UIA Makes First Bond Payment a Month Early
September 11th, 2012
The Utah Infrastructure Agency (UIA) made its first bond payment, a whole month early! CFO Kirt Sudweeks proudly displays a large reproduction of the check—$1,400,081 (and 25 cents).
Read More >The Broadband Landscape
September 6th, 2012
What is the role, importance, and future of broadband? Broadband for America has been hosting several panel discussions on the subject, and some interesting tidbits have emerged from one of these panels: Broadband network companies support over 10 million jobs and growing. Broadband-related jobs across the U.S. pay more than 41 percent above the […]
Read More >The Experiences of Other Fiber Networks
August 29th, 2012
In April, Christopher Mitchell (who recently wrote a blog post for us), published “Broadband at the Speed of Light.” In this report, he explains “how three communities built next-generation networks,” focusing on Chattanooga, Tn.; Bristol, Va.; and Lafayette, La. We’ve been meaning to dig into that report and share some elements. By no means […]
Read More >“UTOPIA is a no brainer”
August 17th, 2012
As a very happy UTOPIA customer, I am glad for the chance to briefly share my experience with the great service I have received. When I was first approached by UTOPIA, I had some reservations given it was a new product. I am generally conservative and take more of the “wait and see” approach to […]
Read More >Rebutting the Robocalls
August 15th, 2012
With all the excitement (that’s one word for it) going on in Orem this week, it seems the Sutherland Institute, a conservative “think tank” based here in Utah, has been making robocalls to the fine folks in Orem. They were trying to rally listeners to oppose the property tax hike there, to prevent the funding […]
Read More >Guest Post–Community Broadband: America’s Broadband Hope
August 14th, 2012
Guest Column: Christopher Mitchell The broadband gap in America is slowly morphing into a broadband chasm. Millions of Americans have no broadband access to the Internet. Tens of millions are stuck with only slow and unreliable DSL. The vast majority of America has a single cable option as its fastest connection to the Internet. […]
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