Beantown
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What about the Flash? Plus that would just mean David Locke's annoying tweets are coming to us that much faster.
Google fiber coming to Salt Lake or elsewhere in the Beehive state
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What about the Flash? Plus that would just mean David Locke's annoying tweets are coming to us that much faster.
Have you called Utopia yet? $25 for 50 bips up and down. I called about a month ago and am not in the coverage area. The rep said the address of everyone who calls is logged for future buildout purposes and said they need something ridiculous like 80-90% market saturation. I guess they have a leg to stand on if everyone in the city calls requesting it.
I'd pay twice that for fiber, and it'd still be cheaper than comcast. It makes no sense to be that low priced and lose the municipalities money.
Just another reason why Provo is the best city to live in, in Utah.
I'm literally ~100 feet outside their coverage area. And there's no possible way to connect to it. So yeah, it's great if you can get it, but only something like 10,000 people in Orem can get it. And here's the kicker--they've stopped construction. So 80% of people in Orem are just out of luck, unless/until the Utopia network gets sold to someone else (like Google fiber???).
They do plan on expanding the network a bit. In Kansas city they are growing out to other cities nearby, so it could happen.
HipHopAnonymous
Active Member
I'd move accross the street or make friends with someone who has it and a get a good wireless router than extend more than 100 feet.
What's the other?
"They" being Google fiber? I can hope!
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
It gets pretty complicated trying to track all your downlines after a while. You need a faster connection.
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
OK, wait. The article says Google is bringing fast, free internet service to Provo. Then it says the cost will be about $70/mth. Taxpayers are also being required to pay off the $39M bond that was issued to construct iProvo. I won't use the "r" word, but it sounds like the Provo residents are being asked to bend over on this one. They're paying google for the right to charge them an outrageous monthly fee for internet service. I don;t care how fast it is...this is a terrible deal for Provo taxpayers.
Its free internet with a $30 signup fee for 5mps internet. It is $70 for 1 gigabit of internet, which is not expensive at all. The bond is something tax payers are already paying in Provo and will continue to pay.
https://fiber.google.com/cities/provo/
https://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56168330-79/google-network-fiber-provo.html.csp
Stifle Tower
Punch Bowl Re-Filler
If Google profits from it, they should take over the bond payments. Taxpayers are being charged double.
if we asked google to pay that much they would not have come. I think it is well worth it for citizens and city.
The Thriller
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This kind of makes UTOPIA look even more silly.....
Google fiber coming to Salt Lake
I hadn't seen this posted, so congrats SLC residents. I'm still hoping they'll expand the Provo offering into Orem.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-fiber-bulks-up-with-plans-for-9-more-regions/
I hadn't seen this posted, so congrats SLC residents. I'm still hoping they'll expand the Provo offering into Orem.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-fiber-bulks-up-with-plans-for-9-more-regions/
They only said they were "considering" SLC, right?
I have a coworker who is a Google fanboy and he lives in Provo. He would never shut up about getting Google Fiber, but now that he has it he says it sucks. He's kind of an idiot, however.
I have a coworker who is a Google fanboy and he lives in Provo. He would never shut up about getting Google Fiber, but now that he has it he says it sucks. He's kind of an idiot, however.
Duck Rodgers
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The real question is when is Google itself going to move here? We've got the public sector spying taken care of with the giant NSA data center here now. Half the old dudes that live around here seem to be ex-CIA. Seems like the leader in private sector spying would be a natural fit.