Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency

Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency

The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is a consortium of 16 Utah cities engaged in deploying and operating a fiber to the premises network to every business and household (about 140,000) within its footprint. Using an active Ethernet infrastructure and operating at the wholesale level, it supports open access and promotes competition in all telecommunications services.

Operations

UTOPIA operates as a wholesale fiber optic network and is prohibited by law from providing retail services. There are currently 4 service providers on the UTOPIA network and the network is open to additional service providers that meet [http://www.utopianet.org/docs/Service%20Providers%20Qualifications%20Final%20Version.pdf certain qualifications] . Though UTOPIA has extended an open invitation to both Comcast and Qwest, the incumbent service providers, both have declined to join the network.

Financing

UTOPIA bonds for construction costs using sales tax pledges as collateral to secure the bond. Revenues to cover the bonds are then set aside by pledging cities in an interest-bearing account and will only be used should subscriber revenues fail to cover the debt service. Because UTOPIA cities all bond at the same time and use their collective bond ratings and taxing authority, financing is generally seen as low-risk and secures a low interest rate.

Member Cities

UTOPIA has two types of members: pledging and non-pledging. Pledging cities have committed to cover bond payments should UTOPIA become unable to service the debt through subscriber revenues. Non-pledging cities have made no such commitment and will only see construction begin after the pledging cities are complete and UTOPIA goes revenue positive (currently projected for 2012).

*Brigham City
*Cedar City (Non-pledging)
*Cedar Hills (Non-pledging)
*Centerville
*Layton
*Lindon
*Midvale
*Murray
*Orem
*Payson
*Perry
*Riverton (Non-pledging)
*Tremonton
*Vineyard (Non-pledging)
*Washington City (Non-pledging)
*West Valley City

Types of Service

*Phone
*Video
*Internet (Data)

Service Providers

*Mstar
*XMission
*Nuvont Communications (residential) / Veracity Communicatons (business)

Network Management/Design

*DynamicCity (Purchased by PacketFront Inc. Aug. 2007)

External links

* [http://www.utopianet.org UTOPIA Home Page]
* [http://www.mstar.net Mstar (Service Provider)]
* [http://nuvont.net/ Nuvont Communications (Residential Service Provider)]
* [http://www.veracitycom.net Veracity Communications (Business Service Provider)]
* [http://www.xmission.net XMission (Service Provider)]
* [http://www.dynamiccity.com DynamicCity's Home Page]
* [http://www.packetfront.com PacketFront's Home Page] (Purchased DynamicCity in Aug. 2007)
* [http://www.freeutopia.org FreeUTOPIA] (Advocacy for UTOPIA, also tracks hyperlocal UTOPIA news)


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