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April 17, 2013 How Provo got its Fiber Network
Roughly ten years ago, Provo Mayor Lewis Billings along with the municipal council embarked on a fairly ambitious goal of connecting every resident to a new technology called fiber optics. The network began as a 300-home test project with a Gigabit backbone. The goal of adding a successful fiber service to the city’s portfolio of […]
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April 15, 2013 Benefits of a Community Broadband Network
Foreword: This is a copy of a speech given by Mayor Lewis Billings back in 2004 announcing Provo’s new municipal fiber network. I’m posting it here as an interesting historical record. Speech before the American Public Power Association Community Broadband Conference San Francisco, CA Monday, October 11, 2004 By Mayor Lewis K. Billings Benefits […]
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