iProvo is back!
October 12, 2011It would appear that iProvo is back. Much has been said about iProvo over the years, but I for one am happy to see the city taking the network back in some form or another. I haven’t had a lot of time to look into the specifics, and I’m not entirely sure they’ve all been decided on, but basically Veracity wasn’t able to pay for it in a timely matter, and so the city (who has always been on the hook for it) is taking to back over and will be leasing out access to ISPs.
I’ll be attending the city iProvo open house shortly and will report back more.
So needless to say, I’m restarting this site and looking forward to evangelizing iProvo. As I’ve said before, I believe that Muncipial Fiber Optics are the most important infrustructure endeavors any community in the 21st century could or should be proud to be taking on, and I’m delighted Provo was forward thinking enough to get on board nearly a decade ago. Thank you to all those that pushed to get this network installed. And to those luddite naysayers out there, I say, feel free to move to a crappier city.
In fact as a side note, about a month ago my wife and I got serious about moving from Provo to Lehi in an effort to get closer to family and work (my wife is a Wedding Photographer, and many of her clients are in Salt Lake). But in the end we just couldn’t deal with the idea of having Crapcast or DSL or (horror) wireless. Having a fiber optic connection in our home kept us in Provo. Take that naysayers.
