sporkme
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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Re: Can UTOPIA compete?
said by jjoshua  :Comcast is going to compete with UTOPIA? What happens if Comcast wins? UTOPIA is a good product at a good price. UTOPIA is not a company that can easily offer competition if Comcast decides to enter their market. Couldn't Comcast sign on to Utopia and offer their services over the network?
Just a thought, from what I understand it's an "open" network that any service provider can join. |
bchoate8
join:2004-02-17
Logan, UT
| That's correct. Utopia doesn't actually offer internet, video, or voice services, they only provide the wholesale network upon which anybody else can offer whatever service they would like. Comcast, Qwest, SBC, Verizon, Joe's Discount ISP, Ted's Data Backup... Businesses get a minimum 1 Gbps connection and residents get a minimum 100 Mbps connection (to the Utopia network). How that connection is used is wholly dependant on what services they are subscribed to from various providers.
As I understand it, if a resident wants to use more than 100 Mbps's worth of services, they will be able to upgrade to a 1 Gbps link. I'm not sure if that's available in this early stage of deployment, but it should become so.
I live in Utah, I personally wrote every state representative offering details, facts and my own opinion as a computer consultant as to why Utopia can only do good things for our state. Luckily the law Qwest pushed through was altered enough that it couldn't kill Utopia, but alas... I couldn't get my own city to become a member city. :P Maybe the new mayor we're getting will be more supportive of our future. |
