I was very frustrated with the Lindon elections last fall. I attended the meet-the-candidates night, and they spoke a lot about Utopia. There were lots of comments about how to deal with the financial obligation, but not a single reference to the positive impact high speed fiber has had for our community. Lots of people think that selling the city to Google is just as good in the long term as owning our own infrastructure and having a real marketplace.
My understanding is that other cities that are backing Utopia have also become hesitant to continue the investment enough to complete the build-out in their cities. Since when did Republicans decide that giving infrastructure to a private monopoly is unregulated capitalism? /me goes to bed before he continues his rant On Saturday, January 25, 2014 21:15:25 Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Friday, January 24, 2014 07:45:29 PM Tod Hansmann wrote: > > On 1/24/2014 6:30 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > > > I posted AC mentioning that > > > Google Fiber's got nothing on Utopia. :) Honestly much as I hate to > > > admit > > > it, the only thing I really miss about Utah is my Utopia connection. > > > > It's only good if you can get it. It's very limited because of the > > mismanagement and it irks me, as I limited my house search to cities > > that would be rolled out. Orem has not been treated well on that front. > > Utopia backbone is 150ish yards from my house and I can't get it. > > From what I've been able to gather, certain members of city councils have > also supposedly been a hindrance to forward momentum. As well as Comcast > and CenturyLink showing up to public meetings and telling people what they > "provide" is good enough. <snip> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
