Salt Lake tribune

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) will not seek another term in the Senate in 2024. In a video posted to Twitter, Sen. Romney said he was stepping aside for new leadership and noted that those new leaders will face enormous challenges in the coming years, something the current

May 26 was an historic day for Bountiful City. The City Council voted unanimously, 5-0, to provide its residents with lightning fast, universal and affordable fiber broadband service by partnering with UTOPIA Fiber, the same company that provides fiber-to-the-home service in 20 cities across Utah.

It is critical that the truth about open-access municipal broadband networks be told: They work; they are successful; they spur competition; they are closing the digital divide. They also are an irritant to big cable and its allies, whose henchmen have been busy at work in a well-financed lobbying campaign. Municipal fiber is hugely successful in Utah, even in his own district. In fact, Utah, one of the most politically conservative states in the nation, has more municipal broadband networks than elsewhere in the US.

During a visit to Utah, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai called for Congress, not his agency, to write “network neutrality” rules regulating businesses that connect consumers to the internet. “We need Congress to set the rules of the digital road,” Chairman Pai said, standing with Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) who made a similar call. Their public comments came after the pair met privately with Utah rural internet providers as part of an FCC outreach on how to extend and improve their services.

A slow wait gave way to blazing speed Aug 24 as Google Fiber turned on its high-capacity Internet services in Salt Lake City (UT). About 18 months after it added Utah's capital to its favored US cities, the Mountain View (CA)-based technology company lit up a fiber-optic network in and around downtown and began seeking business and residential customers. This first phase of Google Fiber's rollout of web access with speeds of up to one gigabit per second — with optional television and phone services — covers roughly 112 blocks from 100 South to 800 South between 400 West and 1300 East.