UTOPIA municipal fiber delivers faster, cheaper internet than any other network in the US

Sascha Meinrath posts about UTOPIA, which is a municipal fiber network that provides the highest speed internet available for consumers in the US.

UTOPIA is an 14-city consortium serving hundreds of thousands of people. As UTOPIA user, Brad Thurber sums up, “The speeds are insane… We’ve been on the system for a month now and there has been absolutely no down time.” According to Utopia’s website, “As a minimum, UTOPIA will deliver 100 Mbps of bandwidth to every connected home and 1 Gbps of bandwidth to every business.” Services are already available at 10Mbps for $39.95/month, 15Mbps for $44/month, or get Internet, Phone, and Cable services for around $90-120/month.

So if a municipal network can bring to suburban and rural areas the same high-speed internet at cheap prices that European and Asian telecom companies make available, what does that say about our big telco and cable companies? What sort of mis-management and money wasting has gone on at these big private companies like AT&T, Verizon, and SBC to make them unable to service their markets efficiently? If I were an investor in any of these companies, I’d be seriously questioning them right now, and holding them accountable for not persuing a significant marketplace.

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