On 2/23/06, Jason Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jared Lundell wrote: > > Robert LeBlanc wrote: > >> <soapbox> > >> > >> I heard that iProvo was ahead by about 25% on subscriptions and that > >> since they were selling some of their services to Utopia (their IP > >> television) they were receiving more revenue then they had expected by a > >> long shot. > > > > According to today's Daily Universe story, they are 50% behind in > > subscriptions and about $1 million in the hole. Their request for > > additional funding has been put on the agenda for the next(?) Provo City > > Council meeting. > > I wouldn't put it past them to go out of their way to make life unpleasant for > students; I've seen a number of proposals from them that were ridiculously > weighted against the student population.
Fascinating stuff. Since my house is in Region 7 (of 8) in Provo, we don't have access to iProvo yet, even though they pulled the physical fiber through my front yard last summer and have been advertising iProvo in the Provo newsletters every month for over a year. I've been very unimpressed with the execution. I've called the number they list for iProvo. A girl answers who knows _absolutely nothing_. No details. Nada. Nothing about availability. Couldn't answer any questions about ISP's. Wouldn't offer me any information about anything related to iProvo. What a great "hotline." I went to the original site for the original ISP for iProvo (back in the day) and the site wouldn't even WORK in Firefox or Safari. Now it's Mstar and Veracity. We've been with Veracity for my work, and it's a joke. We're currently in the process of migrating phone and internet access _away_ from them. I have no experience with Mstar, but it sounds like they're also not the greatest from comments above. > Robert LeBlanc wrote: > of iProvo. A rep from Mstar told me that I could only have 5 IP address > because they were ties to e-mail addresses. I got a hold of an engineer > and he told me that was defiantly not the case. As far as the "city I also got a weird comment about 5 IP addresses when I emailed Mstar about whether I would be able to have a static IP address if I went with them when (if) iProvo ever reached my house. Here's the entire email response: --------------- From: Dee Gehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mailed-By: mstarmetro.net To: Nathan Stocks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 14, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: Mstar Reply Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Add sender to Contacts list | Delete this message | Report phishing | Show original | Message text garbled? You can get 1 Static IP for $4.95 per/mo. Or You can get 8 for $12.95 per/mo (only 5 can be used at a time) ---------------------- Get 8, but ONLY USE 5? What, are they naming the other 3 after my ancestors, or something? You either sell them, or you don't. I've had reliability problems with Comcast at my house, and I don't get a static IP address or decent upload speed. I'd like to host my own servers for various purposes, which is why I've been looking forward to iProvo (decent bandwidth, static IP's, decent prices). I hope they get their act together. As far as 'not enough people are signing up' whining, how about lighting up the dang fiber to my house? How about making a 2-step process for checking availability instead of a 12-step process that leads you in circles? How about actually training the poor temp workers you use to staff the "hotlines"? How about getting some decent ISP's connected to the system? We actually used Xmission for 3.5 years (2000-2004) at a previous office location for my job, and that's the best ISP experience (barring Center7, but that's a CoLo) that I've ever had--so they would get my vote as well if they were an option. I try to avoid ranting, but this particular carrot has been held in front of my nose since 2004, and I'm getting sick of hearing about it how it's supposed to revolutionize my life when not only is So. Freaking. Slow. to get here, but the whole installation/availability process is handled so opaquely and instead of the promised "many ISP's who will compete for services and thus drive prices down while raising quality", we get two ISP's, one which I know is crappy, and the other that everyone else says is crappy. (At this point in the thread, someone needs to reply with shining rays of hope to lift all our spirits. How about, "I heard that ISP X, the best ever ISP, is connecting to iProvo tomorrow with lower prices and better quality of service") ~ Nathan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
