The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency fiber project was defended...
The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency fiber project was defended in a Thursday Deseret News op-ed piece. “Comcast and CenturyLink want to focus attention on UTOPIA’s poor fiscal performance to distract from their own failings,” wrote Director Christopher Mitchell of…
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the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative (http://xrl.us/bnkyom). “The ferocity of UTOPIA’s opposition is puzzling” because “even in a time of high hostility to government, it is odd to see so many rooting against the home team,” wrote Mitchell, whose initiative is part of Minneapolis’s Institute for Local Self-Reliance. UTOPIA provides “an actual competitive market that allows local businesses to thrive,” he said, whereas fiber project critics CenturyLink and Comcast (CD Aug 10 p7) “consistently rank among the most disliked corporations in America, infamous for offering poor customer service,” he said. “There’s no truth to these allegations,” a Comcast spokesman said. CenturyLink declined to comment.