John Locke wrote:Well done Keeper. Glad to see you are up on the Grid. The blurbs you quoted from Fox News show you know what's happening there. Just as the old DARPA net eventually was commercialized as the www, so will the Grid technology -- given time. And Provo is prewired for the future.
Did I hear someone speak of profits? How much profit has there been in the Central Utah Water Project. Why didn't venture capitalists band together to build THAT? Providing bandwidth is as important to our economic future as providing water. No kidding.
And Word Perfect? I know WP failed because Microsoft sold us buggy source code for Windows. Subsequent Word Perfect software for Windows often crashed. (Everyone soon migrated to MS Word.) I mentioned WP because I wanted readers to get a feel for the human cost of Utah County being left in the technological dust. Other communities are going to bury us if we do not trust the future.
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Why would anyone call iProvo a pig in a poke? Thats a pig in a bag the buyer can't look into. The city council that responded to a chamber full of citizens demanding the project be built -- they were inspired, not irresponsible.
Watchdog... watch more. Speak less. We knew exactly what we were getting into including the risks that we might have to subsidize the network like citizens had to subsidize the constuction of the electricity generating plant on Freedom Boulevard. 
Are you comparing electicity to high speed bandwidth? I use wireless internet that is 10Mps (although with bursts). I am glad I don't live in Provo as I will see my bandwidth increase through free market enterprises, and not have to wait for the government to upgrade their infrastructure every few decades (while being taxed for it).
