| Utopia in Utah I debated whether to enter this thread or not, but quite frankly the amount of mis-information is amazing. Utopia was born of a consultant group, Dynamic Cities. We all know how well consultants can create a problem in order to fix it(getting paid along the way of course!) The truth is anyone who does some research will see that Utah is an extremely well educated and tech rich state. It is amazing what you could accomplish 4 years ago online with the state government. Beyond HSI connectivity , digital video , USDTV and Moviebeam all were here first.The long list of tech firms current and past here would embarass silicon valley. The motivation for UTOPIA and IPROVO and American Fork community network (heard of that one?) or Spanish Fork had much more to do with the lack of DSL from Qwest than anything else. Comcast was not even around in the years this concept started. The driver here was economic development. At the time several municipal systems had started, but we all know that is going now, (what's up with ZIPP?). The problem I see with UTOPIA is the business cases are a not realistic,They require subscription volumes and rates that are pretty high. the 10mps @ $40(10mps connection by the way, throughput is much lower) is not in the model. As for Comcast lowering the rates, hey we live in America and it is called free market pricing. Cherish our freedoms all the time, not just when it agrees with your opinion on one topic.
There is a wealth of financial technical information available on these topics for those who want to really the truth.
My belief is the sales tax guarantees for the bonds will have to be used, sales tax rates in those cities will go up to cover it, and those cities will be at an economic disadvantage in the end. Two large cities Salt Lake and Sandy analyzed it carefully and came to that conclusion.
As for this having anything to do with Comcast, it does not, other than they now do need to defend their business investments they have made, and appear to be doing it through superior service quality. Notice the lack postings on BBR about problems in Utah for Comcast? |
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Salt Lake City, UT | reply to falling_star
I have also had very good luck with Comcast in Murray. Recently we have had 2 visits within a month offering lowered prices on our cable HSI bill, My guess is Utopia is getting close to offering it where I live and Comcast is countering with lower prices. I went to the Xmission website and they will also offer service. |
