On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 10:23:20AM -0600, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > > Really how so? I thought it was at least as good as Utopia.
Here are a few problems that I'm aware of: 1) The city of Provo determined that ISPs could only sign up if they offered Internet, phone, and TV. This locked out good ISPs like XMission that had no interest in TV. 2) The iProvo system has been financially mismanaged--I remember hearing about sales tax increases, bankruptcies, sell-outs, etc. I can't even keep track of any of it. 3) Broadweave bought out iProvo and all of its ISPs, so my understanding is that it's no longer a municipal service at all--it's just another ISP with particularly bad service. I'm sure that I have some factual errors here (I haven't followed things too well), and I'm sure there are other problems that I haven't noted. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
