At $70 per month, Google Fiber's gig service is priced lower than fiber providers AT&T, Frontier and Verizon Fios and cable ISPs including Cox, Spectrum and Xfinity. Our customers and partner cities are reaping the rewards,” said Roger Timmerman, Executive Director, UTOPIA Fiber.Getting back to value, Google Fiber plans are actually better priced than most, even though no "cheap" option is available. As technology advances and community needs change, UTOPIA Fiber can quickly adapt. “We designed and built the UTOPIA Fiber network to be scalable for massive growth, while delivering the fastest residential speeds in the United States.
Morgan City hit its revenue mark in May 2020, one year ahead of schedule.2 new internet service providers joined the network (Rise Broadband and Advanced Stream)Īdditionally, four UTOPIA Fiber projects hit revenue marks months ahead of schedule:.2 new cities joined the network (West Point City and Clearfield City).3 new fully-connected cities (West Point City, Morgan, and Layton).42 new Homeowners Associations completed.38% increase in residential daily data use.7 million feet of underground conduit installed.Here’s how UTOPIA Fiber’s 2020 numbers add up: “UTOPIA Fiber is not only the nation’s largest and most-successful publicly-owned Open Access fiber network in the country, we’re now the fastest-growing Open Access network in the nation, too,” she noted. Several of our projects hit revenue marks months ahead of schedule,” said Kimberly McKinley, UTOPIA Fiber’s deputy director and Chief Marketing Officer.
“We planned construction carefully, set expectations with customers, worked with industry partners, and made sure our supply chain was ready at all times. The company was also able to maintain its high customer satisfaction scores, receiving 4.5 out of 5 stars on Google, including 491 five-star reviews. UTOPIA Fiber completed construction in three cities (West Point, Morgan, and Layton), and added 1.7 million feet of conduit throughout their network, at a rate of more than 45 miles of cable per month, by year’s end. “We’re grateful for our customers, our city partners, and our team who have risen to the occasion to connect residents and businesses quickly and efficiently, with very few complaints.” He added, “The public has learned firsthand that the internet is an essential utility, as important to our daily lives as electricity and phone service.” “It was a perfect storm for residential internet usage,” said Roger Timmerman, Executive Director, UTOPIA Fiber. UTOPIA Fiber also says that residential bandwidth grew on its network by 38 percent per subscriber as more Utahns learned and worked from home, began to embrace telehealth appointments, and the continued growth of gaming and streaming persisted. Importantly, construction crews were able to meet surging demand for internet service. The data show that UTOPIA Fiber connected 10,200 new residential subscribers (about 50 percent growth year-over-year) with a total of 35,000 customers, and made their services available to 20,500 new homes in its 15-city footprint. UTOPIA Fiber, an inter-local agency owned by a consortium of 11 Utah cities, was growing quickly prior to the pandemic, but once the coronavirus forced a shift to remote working and learning, things began to really heat up. Murray, UTAH – UTOPIA Fiber released its 2020 end-of-year numbers today showing the fiber network increased its growth by 50 percent in a year that agency officials won’t soon forget.
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