{"id":8190,"date":"2020-08-06T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.com\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:44:26","slug":"utopia-fiber-announces-that-clearfield-utah-will-become-americas-newest-fiber-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/utopia-fiber-announces-that-clearfield-utah-will-become-americas-newest-fiber-city\/","title":{"rendered":"UTOPIA Fiber Announces that Clearfield, Utah Will Become America\u2019s Newest Fiber City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clearfield Will Be the 15th<\/sup> City in Utah with UTOPIA Fiber Residential Service<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, UTAH (August 6, 2020) \u2013 UTOPIA Fiber announced a $13.8 million agreement with the City of Clearfield today to build a Fiber-to-the-Home network, bringing the nation\u2019s fastest residential internet speeds to the growing community. The Clearfield City Council voted unanimously to proceed with the project ensuring that all 32,000 city residents, including Clearfield\u2019s robust business community, will have access to UTOPIA Fiber services. The first homes will be connected in late 2020. Clearfield is currently one of 50 Utah cities connected to UTOPIA Fiber business services and will now be the 15th<\/sup> to have residential service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\npandemic has driven internet usage to record levels. More than ever, Clearfield\nresidents will now have the power to work remotely, participate in distance\nlearning, access telehealth, and stream video on multiple connected devices,\nwithout the slowdowns or buffering of a typical network,\u201d said Roger Timmerman,\nExecutive Director, UTOPIA Fiber. \u201cWe\u2019re really happy to grow in Clearfield.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timmerman\nsaid the $13.8 million project is being financed through revenue bonds issued\nthrough UTOPIA Fiber\u2019s sister agency, UIA, and backed by the city. And, like\nall UTOPIA Fiber projects since 2009, this project will be paid for completely\nthrough subscriber revenues.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor\nMark Shepherd said that striking an agreement with UTOPIA Fiber is key to his\ncommunity\u2019s continued economic growth: \u201cClearfield City\u2019s population is\nexpected to increase nearly 50% by 2040. Our residents require better internet\noptions, the freedom to choose from multiple providers, faster speeds, and affordable\nprices. UTOPIA Fiber has been delivering that for our business community and\nwe\u2019re excited to expand fiber access to every home in the city.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearfield,\nwhich borders Hill Air Force Base (30 miles north of Salt Lake City), will\nbecome the fourth contiguous city in Davis County with UTOPIA Fiber\u2019s \u201cOpen\nAccess\u201d residential services. This means that once the network is constructed, residents\ncan choose between 13 high-quality service providers because UTOPIA Fiber\u2019s Open\nAccess model encourages healthy competition among providers. Notably,\nClearfield City is home to the Freeport Center which houses 70 large\nmanufacturers and distributors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUTOPIA\nFiber has been key to the Freeport Center\u2019s success, as tenants can move\nmassive amounts of data at the speed of light as easily as they can move their\ngoods and services,\u201d said the Mayor. \u201cNow, all our residents will have access\nto the same modern connectivity.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UTOPIA Fiber is an\ninter-local agency that provides Fiber-to-the-Home services in 15 Utah cities,\nand commercial services in over 50. Clearfield City residents will be able to\nget fiber internet services starting at $65\/month for 250\/250 Mbps and will\nhave the option to choose speeds up to 10 Gbps (up to 100 Gbps for business) from\n12 local providers\u2014the fastest internet speeds\nin the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A timeline for this project will be announced soon. Clearfield residents, check UTOPIAfiber.com for service maps, build-out timelines, and information on how to sign up for UTOPIA Fiber services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acerca de UTOPIA Fiber<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a group of Utah cities, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is a community-owned fiber optic network that uses the Open Access model to promote competition by giving customers the freedom to choose which telecommunication services they want. With fiber availability to over 100,000 businesses and residences in over 50 communities, UTOPIA Fiber is the largest and most successful Open Access network in the United States, and enjoys the industry\u2019s highest customer satisfaction scores. Since 2009, the agency has successfully designed, built, and operated over $200 million worth of fiber projects throughout Utah, all of which have been funded completely through subscriber revenue, at no cost to taxpayers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONTACTOS CON LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACI\u00d3N<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Knight<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison\nEdwards PR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

914-242-0010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bknight@harrison-edwardspr.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kim McKinley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Marketing Officer,\nUTOPIA Fiber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

801-613-3837<\/p>\n\n\n\n

kmckinley@utopiafiber.com<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UTOPIA Fiber announced a $13.8 million agreement with the City of Clearfield today to build a Fiber-to-the-Home network, bringing the nation\u2019s fastest residential internet speeds to the growing community. The Clearfield City Council voted unanimously to proceed with the project ensuring that all 32,000 city residents, including Clearfield\u2019s robust business community, will have access to UTOPIA Fiber services. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106,112,357],"tags":[270,271,272,273,274,275,130,276,277,181,278,167,119,120,121,122,124,279,126],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband-efforts","category-developments-at-utopia","category-industry-news","category-utopia-fiber-news","tag-clearfield-utah","tag-clearfield-utah-internet","tag-fast-internet-clearfield","tag-fast-internet-near-me","tag-fast-internet-salt-lake-city","tag-fast-internet-utah","tag-fiber","tag-fiber-internet","tag-fiber-project","tag-fiber-to-the-home","tag-internet-clearfield","tag-press-release","tag-utah","tag-utah-fast-internet","tag-utah-internet","tag-utopia","tag-utopia-fiber","tag-utopia-fiber-in-the-news","tag-utopiafiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utopiafiber.dev\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}