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Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments
Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastr…
They desperately tried to sue and harass the network out of existence in the early aughts, claiming the concept violated numerous local laws (it didn’t). And the prices being offered here are significantly less than locals often pay in highly developed tech-centric urban hubs like New York, San Francisco, or Seattle. But because big monopolies (and a bunch of Libertarian think tankers with covert financial ties to those same monopolies) didn’t like the idea for ideological or financial reasons, federal and state policymakers have vacillated between demonizing the idea of municipal broadband, or banned it entirely (17 states , and House Republicans attempted a federal ban during COVID).
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