Overview
Location
United States, Utah, Cottonwood Heights
Employees
51-200
Phone
+1 801-613-3880
Founded date
2009
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Jan 26, 2025 | The Illusion of Open Access: AT&T's Fiber Gambit | In the world of broadband, competition is the name of the game. Yet, the players often change the rules. AT&T, a titan in the telecom industry, has recently made headlines with its newfound support for “open access” fiber networks. But ... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | AT&T’s Support Of ‘Open Access’ Fiber Competition Is A Head Fake, Community Owned ISP Says | We’ve talked repeatedly how one way to boost lagging U.S. broadband competition is the support of “open access” fiber networks that allow numerous ISPs to compete over a centralized fiber network. In ideal implementations, like Ammon, Idaho... |
| Nov 9, 2024 | The Battle for Broadband: Community Networks vs. Corporate Giants | In the vast landscape of American broadband, a silent war rages. On one side, corporate giants like AT&T and Comcast wield their power, shaping laws and regulations to protect their monopolies. On the other, communities yearn for better... |
| Nov 7, 2024 | 16 U.S. States Still Ban Community-Owned Broadband Networks Because AT&T and Comcast Told Them To | For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities,... |
| Oct 2, 2024 | New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. | The Institute For Local Self Reliance (disclosure: I have done writing and research for them) has released an updated interactive map of every community-owned and operated broadband network in the U.S. All told, there’s now 400 community-ow... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | AT&T, T-Mobile Embrace ‘Open Access’ Fiber After Years Of Opposition | Two years ago, Techdirt’s Copia Institute released a report discussing how open access fiber networks were a potential path toward boosting fiber competition in the United States. Such networks, sometimes community owned, involve collaborat... |
| May 15, 2024 | Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments | Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborat... |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Telecom Monopolies Are Once Again Funding Covert, Sleazy Local Attacks On Community Broadband Networks | We’ve long established that U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of towns, cities, cooperat... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | Как в США борются за общественный широкополосный интернет с телеком-монополистами — обсуждаем ситуацию | По определению Федеральной комиссии по связи, соединение считают широкополосным от 25 Мбит/с с апстримом от 3 Мбит/с. Стандарт ввели в 2015-м, а в прошлом году попытались повысить планку до 100 и 20 Мбит/с. Однако инициатива так и осталась ... |
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FAQ about UTOPIA
When was UTOPIA founded?
UTOPIA was founded in 2009.
What has the press written about UTOPIA?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning UTOPIA, among them “The Illusion of Open Access: AT&T's Fiber Gambit” (Jan 26, 2025) and “AT&T’s Support Of ‘Open Access’ Fiber Competition Is A Head Fake, Community Owned ISP Says” (Jan 24, 2025).
Is UTOPIA still active?
Yes, UTOPIA is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 4, 2025.