[sllug-members]: How to get UTOPIA

[Roberto Mello]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:09:11PM -0600, Doran Barton wrote:
> Kurt Mahan wrote:
> >Didn't the city also have to "pay" to give Utopia the rights to use the
> >easements?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by this, but unless Utopia bombs and nobody uses 
> it (yeah, right), the cities that participate have no liability. They're 
> only liable if the project doesn't work- in which case, the cities have to 
> figure out how to pay for the loans.

I hope UTOPIA does beter than iProvo. There are only 2 providers in
iProvo, because the city forces every provider to provide the
"triple-play" services (internet, video, telephone).

So far, I have only used the data services of one provider and it pretty
much sucks. Several *weeks* to get a PTR record corrected in DNS.
Meanwhile, we can't send mail to a bunch of places. If we were a business
on iProvo we'd be dead by now.

I had very high hopes for iProvo, but things don't seem to be getting
better fast enough. I hope the project doesn't crumble under its own
mismanagement weight.

-Roberto

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