UTOPIA Fiber: A Model Open-Access Network
The largest open-access network in the United States has been a boon to its 11 member cities.
If you mention UTOPIA Fiber to a broadband network operator outside Utah, he or she is likely to say, “We don’t want our project to be the next failed UTOPIA.”
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If you mention UTOPIA Fiber to a resident in one of the 11 Utah cities in which the open-access broadband network operates, he or she is likely to say: “My neighbors love UTOPIA, and I can’t wait until I get it to my home!”
The term “failed UTOPIA” has been bandied about excessively over the past decade. As a result, even advocates for municipal broadband occasionally distance themselves from this robust open-access network officially known as the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency. It is the largest open-access network in the United States.
