Comments about ‘UTOPIA network is worth new bonds to foster Utah growth’

We are on the Utopia network in Orem. I love the speed of the internet.

However, I have been very disappointed in the TV service. Glitches with the DVR, pixelization of the screen, shows that will pause for half a second then resume. My neighbors have the same problems.

We pay $109 a month for tv, internet, and phone.

Until the providers fix these problems and make their services a better deal than the local cable company, UTOPIA is going to struggle.

Fast internet is great but poor tv is making me look into going back to cable.

America is the best place on planet earth, and we are the best high tech place also, then if this is true, because the GOP built it that way, supporting big business, then, why do we still have to call India for tech support ?.

finally an elected official willing to be actually show leadership and hats off for the des news actually printing it. its about time somone stood up to the fake opposition out there and figure out a way to not only fix the financial problems of utopia but actually fix the lack of innovation and competition in this state. so often our elected officials try to figure out what is the most advantageous political position rather than actually representing us and figuring out how to fix problems. we need more winders out there

Utopia is just another grand dream that failed when businessmen tried to distance themselves from bankruptcy by getting Government to guarantee their loans.

Those of us who have worked in the Computer industry since its infancy know the folly of assuming that technology will not change and assuming that faster, cheaper, better technology will not replace expensive existing technology.

My customers paid huge amounts of money to get T1 lines connected directly to the telephone company. Inside their businesses, they paid even more to run cable to every computer. That technology is obsolete.

Now, those businesses have a wireless antenna on the roof of their business. They have wireless repeaters inside their business. What used to cost thousands, now costs hundreds. Service is faster and better. Costs are lower.

Utopia is old technology. It costs much more than other types of service.

Last week, when I worked on my taxes, I asked myself, why I was paying $948 a year for DSL service and another $228 a year for an ISP when I could get faster service for a total of $360 a year, 36% of the current cost.

Utopia customers are asking the same question.

Until we can find something faster than the speed of light, fiber optics will be the technology--wireless has its limits, copper cable has its limits. Good for Winder for making a hard choice--and the right one--about what to do with UTOPIA!

This is what real leadership looks like. Mayor Winder isn't going off about what a bad decision has been made, he's accepting the reality of the situation and making the best of it. It can't be undone and having nothing to show for all of the past effort isn't an option. Thank goodness there are still a few real leaders out there willing to do what is necessary even if it may not be popular.

You realize that UTOPIA is the reason that we have the lowest prices in the country for services from the likes of Quest and Comcast, right?

I was going to write and say how UTOPIA is a stupid venture, a ripoff of all who have participated,

but then I in these comments "beije | 8:37 p.m. April 18, 2010 " that UTOPIA is responsible for the rest of us having the least expensive services in the country from the likes of Quest and Comcast.

Chuck, use a local ISP and you probably won't have to deal with India.