word.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/satellite-net-service-sued-for-caps-paltry-bandwidth/

We’ve seen similar lawsuits against others including Concast and TWR. Rumblings of more lawsuits to come.

Oh and concast setup limits now instead of telling us “We’re not allowed to tell the customer what the limit is”. TWR’s behavior in which because people didn’t want the caps so they pulled back on DOCSIS 3. Basically taking their ball home with them.

So what to do. We’re in a situation in which our lame duck government isn’t able to figure out how to enable citizens. No free market and we’re surprised with this crap hitting the news?

Hughsnet btw is a major player in wireless.

And we’re surprised the rest of the world is able to build Internet services far cheaper than here. Europe has a model we should consider. Their fiber network is open. The entry level is far lower than in America.

And yet our government is incapable of moving forward on this issue . . .

Can’t wait.

What are the alternatives dude?

You brought it up. So go ahead and continue to the part where you’re solutions are entertained. I’m all ears.

Wireless you say?

Have you actually tried wireless guys? Let’s not talk about something you don’t understand ok? The latency issues itself will disappoint you in comparison. If you have questions about wireless then I’d be happy to provide education on this topic

If not Utopia then I’d like to see some positive discussion for a refreshing change here. I challenge Rep Frank to give us his opinion of what we should do and how we can protect our citizens without competition. We have no protection despite all this “talk” about us having laws in place. It’s been over a year since Rep.Frank and I spoke face to face at the State Capital. Since then I’ve met with several other’s in the Salt Lake Valley (one neighbor on my street included) who have had their internet turned off by Concast for using it too much and banned for 12 months.

Qwest is damn slow but that’s where people are going to since we have no alternative. And now that we’re a socialist country, perhaps we can look at what other’s are doing. They sure as hell are not running more 1800’s copper in the ground but running fiber man!!

>> Jesse…I knew I could flush you out. <<

Had to comment about this. I expected better from a public servant. Either we’re going to discuss a serious problems or we’re going to play those games.

Since we’ve been paying taxes since 1994 under the NII, why don’t we have fiber to the home? We paid for it and President Bill Clinton signed it into law. Hey how about an audit!

And yes, I’ve written to Obama about the NII. After all, I paid for it too!

Also given the event that the city to end up paying taxes towards the Utopia bonds their is revenue from Utopia and it is unlikely the entirety of the bond would come out of tax’s. I can’t stress this point enough with over 8,000 fiber connected customers and growing, available triple play service improving their average revenue per unit, and new wholesale pricing model.

I will note that am located in Layton, I am in the next footprint to get Utopia service here sometime in the summer. Pretty soon the only way to get access to a Utah base internet provider will be though Utopia as Qwest excludes 3rd party’s from their adsl2+ upgrades and comcast has never allowed 3rd party’s on their network.

All that said yes I do believe that utopia will eventually call on a portion of the tax money. I am fine with this we as tax payers have given much more then utopia’s bond to Qwest in the form of the Federal Universal Service Fund, and other tax benefits. Utopia is the only way I see for us to get a modern telecommunication’s infrastructure.