[sllug-members]: Bad UTOPIA news - let's do something about it

[Jason Porter]

Does someone have this in digitized format?  Jesse over at
freeutopia.org has setup a wiki for all things UTOPIA so there is one
place to get all of the information that is not covered on the main
UTOPIA site.  If someone has this and could add it to the wiki, that
would be great.  If I had it I would, however, I do not unless the full
text is posted up on the Tribune's site somewhere and I can scrape it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sllug-members-bounces at sllug.org [mailto:sllug-members-
> bounces at sllug.org] On Behalf Of scratch at xmission.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:03 PM
> To: sllug-members at sllug.org
> Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: Bad UTOPIA news - let's do something
about
> it
> 
> Quoting Allen Schultz <allen.schultz at gmail.com>:
> 
> > What kind of prices/speed is UTOPIA getting/giving?
> 
> 
> Our current basic residential service is 50 Mbps bidirectional and
> includes 500 GB of data for $50/mo.
> 
> MStar is offering 50 Mbps with 100 GB for $40/mo.  I don't believe
> Nuvont has adopted the 50 Mbps service yet, and are still selling 15
> Mbps exclusively (also $40/mo).
> 
> ATT pulled out a couple weeks ago.  Veracity is business service only.
> 
> I think all residential VoIP service is floating around the Vonage
> price range, without the additional "taxes and fees" (which are
> neither taxes nor fees, for the most part).  I know our target price
> is $30 before promotions and bundling (which should be in public beta
> later this month).
> 
> A number of the questions raised in this discussion are covered in the
> op-ed we have submitted to the Tribune in response to this week's
> publications.  If they are not accepted, I'd be happy to send it out
> here.
> 
> 
> Warren S. N. Woodward
> Director, Broadband Services
> XMission Internet
> warrenw at xmission.com
> (801) 303-0819
> (877) XMISSION  ext 119
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