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An exciting development has occurred recently in the world of fiber deployment. A new model is emerging in Brigham City, a city of less than 20,000 in northern Utah, for how user-owned open fiber networks can be financed and deployed....
Whenever anyone tries making an argument against municipal broadband and/or open networks, more often than not it starts by citing UTOPIA as the poster child for failure, the example given for why other cities shouldn't pursue plans to wire themselves....
Don’t know how I missed this: earlier this month Verizon allowed regarded tech columnist Om Malik to send questions to a Verizon employee named Rich who’s been wired for 100Mbps access to his home to discuss how it’s changed his...
UTOPIA's network has held court to a number of companies interested in testing applications that can make use of the capacious bandwidth provided by fiber. Unfortunately they're under the strictest of NDAs with most all of them, preventing them from discussing any partner, save one. That one is TVBLOB, an Italian company that may be on the verge of launching a true Killer App for fiber.
For the first writeup following my trip last week to the UTOPIA project, I want to take a moment to consider what is arguably its most revolutionary and controversial aspect: its open access network.
Just got back late last night from a whirlwind day and a half tour of UTOPIA, the high profile fiber-to-the-home build that unites 14 communities outside of Salt Lake City and delivers symmetrical Internet access of 15Mbps and above.
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