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...
by Tax Watchdog | Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Roy Burton December 11, 2009 In front of an overflow crowd spilling into the hallway and down the stairs of the city offices, the Brigham City Council voted 3-1 Thursday to approve a bond finalizing terms for a special assessment area to the UTOPIA fiber optic...
by Tax Watchdog | Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Editorial Staff December 11, 2009 It has come to this. Utopia, the ill-starred fiber-optic network in which 10 Utah cities are enmeshed, is hemorrhaging cash. Those cities already are on the hook for millions of dollars in pledges of sales tax revenues to back the...
