The Council adopted a multi-year Open Access program to deliver county-wide high-speed connectivity.

Establishing Best Practices for U.S. State Broadband Program Accountability

Schools, states, and data firms push broadband map accuracy.

Fiber cuts and related acts can paralyze critical operations, creating cascading disruptions that may affect millions of citizens simultaneously.

To protect economic and public safety interests, regulators, legislators, law enforcement, municipalities, and communications providers must work together.

Only Texas and California have yet to post plans. Those results are expected in late October.

Alaska is planning to get fiber to 53 percent of its BEAD locations.

Connecting the dots between Utah politics and culture, the hyper-partisan world of social media, and a tragic political assassination.

States are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

Eleven states called out.

It's the municipal operator's 22nd completed citywide build.

There are a variety of technologies to consider for environments where fiber isn't a viable option

Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming sign joint agreement to coordinate energy development.

BEAD bids are rolling in across Utah, Rhode Island, New York, Nebraska, and Alabama.

Fifth Circuit orders deeper review of the law’s First Amendment impact.

Louisiana joins multi-state legal effort to ease deployment of next-gen nuclear tech.

The App Store Accountability Act requires app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors

New Mexico, Hawaii report strong provider interest as more states move to prepare final proposals.

'While I am all for improving the program, I do not want to see West Virginia wait longer than is necessary or have to redo their proposals and application,' Sen. Capito also said.

Speed data showed that performance was far from equal across the board.

Beyond Teenagers: In addition to teenagers entering the workforce, we also need to serve adults who are ready to upskill.

More than 15 states say they will prioritize open access networks with BEAD funding.

More than a third of the 700 communities served by municipal broadband do so with an open access network.

Judge Robert Shelby blocked a law that would have required social media companies to verify the ages of their users.

Two federal efforts aimed at protecting children online have stalled as Congress went on a six-week recess without a vote.

'Government mandates and censorship will not protect children online,' said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of the 'No' votes.

The regions will receive a combined $425 million in BEAD money.

It included recommendations to federal agencies, online platforms and parents.

The state had the highest average number of complaints to the FCC about internet per 100,000 broadband serviceable locations.

The bill requires social media platforms to cease using algorithms for children's online accounts.

The city has an average download speed of 6.5 Gbps, claims the report.

Rebuttals are due by July 9 for evaluation by Utah Broadband Center.

That makes 10 open challenge windows, plus 18 states finished with the first phase of the process.

Idaho awarded $500,000 in grants to bolster community involvement in the state's BEAD implementation.

Varied geography might result in multiple high-cost thresholds, the state said.

‘It is time for the United States to end its haphazard approach to closing the digital divide.’

UTOPIA continues to expand open access model builds.

The states will use their funding through the Capital Projects Fund to connect more than 180,000 homes and businesses.

‘This award will provide access to those communities who have for too long went without affordable internet connectivity.’

A small city in Utah has some of the country’s highest speeds using a unique model of fiber sharing.

The open access project will span 38 counties.

The expansion will bring fiber-to-the-home to residents of two additional Utahn cities.

The bottom line reason for state interest in autonomous vehicles is safety, says Utah transportation official.

December 17, 2020 – UTOPIA Fiber announced Tuesday that it had fully built its fiber-to-the-home broadband network in the City of West Point, Utah. The $7.2 million project, announced after a unanimous city council vote, gives every residence and business in West Point access to the fastest internet

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April 14, 2020— Recovered coronavirus patient Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah., recounted his experience overcoming COVID-19 and gave his thoughts on the nation’s struggling economy on a Silicon Slopes webinar on Monday On the evening of March 14, McAdams said he “felt a little bit off, run-down.” His temp

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2020—The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration is moving forward with various forms of broadband mapping, agency officials said on a Wednesday webinar. Even without having federal funding to do a comprehensive national broadband map, as

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Construction is underway for a project that will complete West Point’s fiber network by end of 2020 MURRAY, Utah, January 28, 2020 – UTOPIA Fiber announced an agreement with West Point to execute a Fiber-to-the-Home project that will bring the fastest internet speeds in the nation to the City. The W

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: California, and many other states, have muscled their way onto the national broadband stage. They’ve done this through legislation that would either require net neutrality protections that the Federal Communications Commission removed in December 2017, or use state purch

PITTSBURGH, August 16, 2018 – Big telecommunications providers are not making it easy for communities to step up and offer robust broadband service, even in low-density areas that the private sector has declined to serve for years, according to experts speaking at a July 23 Next Century Cities confe

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Here’s my piece in the Deseret News, responding to information about the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency that simply isn’t correct. I discuss why cities need to open up their thinking about using fiber as a utility, and why cities are going to be in th

BROADBAND BREAKFAST INSIGHT: Even in areas where information technology is booming, like Utah, it’s important to consider the impact that the adoption of broadband technology will have on those who are “less connected.” A look at how Digital Inclusion applies in Utah. || Increasing Digital Inclusion

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Broadband Breakfast Insight: Fiber is prevalent in the Utah broadband marketplace, both because of Google Fiber, and because of the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency. This helps push the speed upward on the state’s connection speeds.-> Utah Internet Speed #2 in the Country and #3 in

KEYSTONE, Colorado, June 6, 2016 – Continuing my live interviews at Mountain Connect, I interview Kelleigh Cole of the Utah Broadband Project. Kelleigh holds the position in Illinois similar to the role I had as Executive Director of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois from 2010-2013.

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