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Re: End of the Utah story
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:09:06 -0700
________________________________________ From: dhvanderwoude () gmail com [dhvanderwoude () gmail com] On Behalf Of Dirk van der Woude [dirkvanderwoude () gmail com] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:02 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] End of the Utah story David, this starts to smell a bit... The easily verifiable facts are these. Utah boasts two FttH projects: - Utopia or the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, a group of now 16 cities rolling out FttH (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Telecommunication_Open_Infrastructure_Agency) - Next there is compltely separate iProvo project in and of the city of Provo, called iProvo (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IProvo) In the first IP mail today Mr Bennett sought to portray Utopia as in trouble, based on a newspaper article of April 21. However, Utopia is alive and kicking. Now Mr Bennett apparently tries to show that Utopia has been sold off. However, the newspaper article he now points to bears no relation whatsover with Utopia, as it describes a proposal of Provo Mayor Mr Billings to sell the non-Utopia related network in Provo. Next, the reasons for that sale are not technical, commercial or large commercial troubles, but (purposely constructed?) legal hurdles. In the words of iProvo CEO Christensen: "While the technology offers high speed and great reliability, Christensen said, the business model was hedged up by laws that prohibited the city from being the network operator and the service provider."There are inefficiencies with the model that the city could not solve," he said." http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695277113,00.html?linkTrack=rotator:cvr&promoID=2633 iProvo as well as Utopia in the past have been recipients of attacks of the Heartland and Reason institutes, in which attacks the facts were the first victim. The same attacks were launched by the Heartland Institute against the Lafayette (LA) FttH project - and rebutted for the nonsense they contained, see 1) http://www.baller.com/pdfs/Baller_Response_to_Heartland_5-10-05.pdf and 2) http://www.baller.com/pdfs/lafayette_response_heartland_6-23-05.pdf On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:16 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net<mailto:dave () farber net>> wrote: ________________________________________ From: Richard Bennett [richard () bennett com<mailto:richard () bennett com>] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:11 PM To: David Farber Subject: End of the Utah story The story I sent on the Utah project was dated April 21st, and by July 1st it had been sold to a private company: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/271917/ Happy ending, sort of. RB -- Richard Bennett ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. --Robert Trout ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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