It might also be helpful to review the situation in Utah. Nice vision but money short. (www.dailywireless.org/2008/11/25/utopia-ftth-now-focused-on-business) (http://telephonyonline.com/fttp/news/multi-city-utopia-network-1125/)
When the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) was launched in 2003, it planned to boost the broadband competitiveness of Utah cities, although the largest city, Salt Lake, did not participate. UTOPIA only supplies the fiber optic network. Private companies would provide the content and services, and pay fees to the network to make their products available. "For a lot of different reasons, they didn't get the last mile in in lots of places before they needed to refinance", said Hugh Matheson, Utopia's new communications director. "There's fiber that goes into some footprints but doesn't go down streets. There are places where there's fiber under the streets that hasn't been marketed. They were kind of going maybe too many places at once." Utah's other well-known muni network, iProvo, was acquired and privatized this year by Broadweave Networks. The acquisition makes Broadweave one of the largest Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) network operators in the country. iProvo passes 36,000 homes, businesses, government buildings, and schools at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than cable or DSL. Provo spent $47.5 million total, they sold for $40.5 million, so in the end the city's out about $7 million. iProvo was the largest municipally owned fiber-optic network in the United States. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
