by Tax Watchdog | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Howard Stephenson April 25, 2010 Happy birthday, UTOPIA! You’ve turned 8 and reached what LDS Church members believe is the age of accountability. Let’s hope that you will stop blaming others for your financial and operational woes, accept responsibility...
by Tax Watchdog | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
April 20, 2010 Is there no end in sight to the constant UTOPIA pitch? By the time this laughable exercise in chasing after good money for bad purposes ends, whatever “high-speed fiber-optic network” of Internet service UTOPIA is supposed to provide will...
by Tax Watchdog | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rececca Palmer April 19, 2010 Eight cities that make up the municipal broadband experiment UTOPIA have signed off on giving the public corporation $292,000 to fight a hush-hush legal battle. The information was obtained Monday by the Deseret News through a Government...
by Tax Watchdog | Apr 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Bryon Saxton April 14, 2010 The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Network needs roughly $20 million more in “new investment” from pledging cities, including five from Top of Utah, the largest being Layton. The financial backing UTOPIA is looking...
by Tax Watchdog | Dec 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Jay Evensen December 20, 2009 If a salesman came to your house and offered you a killer fiber-optic Internet service, but then said there would be a $3,000 fee to hook it up, would you be interested? Before you decide, you could choose to finance that hookup fee with...
by Tax Watchdog | Dec 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Jenniffer Wardell December 17, 2009 It once promised to be the largest, ultrahigh-speed digital network in the country. Its anticipated price tag of around half a billion dollars also branded it as one of the most ambitious fiber optic projects in the world — one...
