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ccoggle

join:2001-08-06
Salt Lake City, UT

reply to JesseHarris
Re: Utopia dead?

Howdy Jesse,

Utopia really isn't on the right track. I apologize if I'm high jacking this article but I have to agree with the OP.

Even in the places they do have service its near impossible to tell exactly where its deployed and where its not. I'm quite literally in the process of trying to find a house to buy and I would LOVE to buy inside of the Utopia Footprint in West Valley. I tried to find a map or atleast an 'outline' of areas where they have it/looking to deploy and no one can even provide me with that.

What kind of ISP are they running where they can't even give you an 'idea' of areas where they are deployed?

JesseHarris

join:2008-07-30
Sandy, UT

"Not on the right track" and "dead" are very different things. The original post also contained a number of factual errors. (For instance, UTOPIA can service around 80,000 addresses, not 50,000, and has at least 8,000 subscribers, not 3,000). Most of it is basic fact-checking kind of stuff.

I've taken UTOPIA to task for spending over a year working on their service-checking tool with nothing to show for it. Right now, you can submit your address and contact info on their website to see if service is available at a particular address. As far as WVC goes, the footprint is very small and it's going to be a while before service is deployed any further. WVC has a demographic that, as a whole, isn't the most likely to buy service and I've gathered that UTOPIA has placed it near the back of the line as a result. Your best bet is to get a SAA together with your neighbors to pay for the installation costs.
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Jesse Harris
Chairman, UTOPIA Citizens Advisory Network
»www.freeutopia.org/
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