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Tad Walch: Psst! Provo may be getting ready to punt

Baffled! | 9:59 a.m. March 8, 2008

It baffles me as I have viewed this debacle from the beginning.

My question for the managers of iProvo is this:
Why haven't you aligned with REAL partners who could provide competent service and compete in the marketplace?

You've had a PERFECT opportunity to bring in HUGE companies...like other cable providers (cox cable, even DirecTV and Dish Network could provide over the fiber network)

Instead you have aligned yourselves with two-bit home grown startups who offer uncompetitive packages and NO customer service!

Provo had the opportunity to do something great with this project... The whole world was watching and they squandered the opportunity using the "Good ol' boy" mentality here in Provo.

Way to go!

Ticked Off | 7:39 a.m. March 10, 2008

The thought that we could have had a great new rec center instead of this money-losing albatross really makes me mad. Conservative republicans who want to compete with the private sector is pretty unbelievable. When will they learn that government doing this kind of business always brings about the socialist side-effects like "secret meetings" and financial impropriety. Conservative? - yea right!

mcfac | 8:18 a.m. March 10, 2008

Privatize it, get it off your back, give it to companies who do this sort of thing "for a living."

The next task will be, once it is privatized, that private company will become an UBER TARGET.

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Good luck... | 12:48 p.m. March 10, 2008

...to all of those ultra-conservative Republicans from Utah County who thought they could do it better than the free market system.

Next time change your party affiliation to Democrat first. You're giving my party a bad name.

PS. Don't try running for any other office as a Republican. We know your names and your true colors.

Time Is Up! | 8:44 a.m. March 12, 2008

It all starts at the top folks. Those that have run iProvo in the ground need to go!

WHY??? | 3:31 p.m. March 13, 2008

Why are the people that have mismanaged this venture from the beginning still being paid by us tax payers of Provo City? If I had mismangaged projects that are my reponsibility this bad at my job my boss would have fired me long ago.

quiet & shy | 1:59 p.m. March 14, 2008

I think that this should be interesting. I myself don't have iProvo, W.V.C. doesn't provide it, but that doesn't mean that I can't be interested in it, right? :P.....sometimes all of the talk about debts rising and America's low or "downfall" as many call it just makes me sick!! :D

Also Baffled | 7:38 a.m. March 15, 2008

Baffled nailed it. iProvo was a great concept (except for the tax subsidies), but whatever it had going for it in the planning phase is gone. The Internet provider are horrible. I have used all three - same slow speed, nonexistant customer service, and service blackouts. The city's whole idea of competition between three deaf, blind, and dumb wholesalers just doesn't work.

quiet & shy | 8:00 p.m. March 15, 2008

yep! I have to agree with Also Baffled....and Baffled, of course! =) iProvo gets a 2-thumbs up from me!!

I love it | 5:46 p.m. April 3, 2008

iProvo is awesome. I have faster internet than anyone I know. Cable promises of speed, which are doubtfully 100% accurate, don't touch what I get. iProvo is the only way in Provo that I can stream 720p video. I have had it over a year and can't think of a time it was unavailable. I have only used Mstar, but have had a great experience.

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