While everyone involved is downplaying this, it a real problem for Broadweave. Veracity and Broadweave will be in direct competition with each other for business customers on the network. The most profitable customers.

As Veracity, how would you like to be in head to head competition on a network with your landlord and the network owner as your competition.

All the while knowing that in 18 months when your network lease expires you will be kicked off and forced to sell your customers?

I bet Veracity will move all 350 customers back to the Qwest network before their lease expires.

So everyone involved says this does not matter and they are friendly on the surface but Broadweave blamed the previous failure of the network on this model and they will likely not retain these most profitable customers when they give Veracity the boot as soon as the contract allows them to do so.

you know whats awesome about veracity? I CANT EVEN GET HD CHANNELS.
talk about high tech.

the operator of the network is irrelevant, it was once the city, it is now a private company, the network gear is not magically fixed, layer 2 still sucks, there are still going to be network problems that iprovo or the service providers couldnt figure out how to fix. Get some different eyes on it and see if it fixes it....now provo sits in an alternatively hard spot, if broadweave bombs it goes back to a city with ZERO people who can run it. Those employees wont come back from their posh government funded jobs with utopia. Looks like good ol broadweave employees may have to get their resume to the city...

The city council voted 4-3 in favor of the sale. One of the strongest arguments for the sale was that with the Veracity merger, Broadweave would now have experienced people and a decent customer base. Had that vote taken place knowing that Veracity was not involved, there's no way it would have passed. Broadweave's previous operation has been a complete joke. Without the Veracity merger, selling to Broadweave is a huge mistake for Provo City. The mayor won't stand a chance of re-election after this debacle.

The best is yet to come folks. You ain't seen nothin' yet until all the wheels come off this wagon. It is just beginning! Best of all Garlik and Billings skip off into the sunset hand in hand with big smiles on their faces and no Provo Citizens seem to care that they wasted over 60 million of your hard earned dollars. I wish I could afford to move out of this hole that Billings and Garlik keep digging us into.

Park City?
This is not the first time I've seen you comment that Veracity does not offer HDTV?

Veracity does not offer residential service. NuVont and Mstar both offered HDTV on the iProvo network. (Mstar offered more channels of HDTV.)

You should expect Broadweave to offer the NuVont HDTV package. I think I heard them say they planned to add more HD channels.

going to happen?
What are the problems you are talking about?
There have been no reports I've seen of problems with the layer 2 data network. I've been a customer since it launched and find the network to be fast and very dependable.

I'm aware of phone problems and even some set top box related video problems....but not heard much of network data problems for residential customers.

I've only seen layer 2 problems in MDU's where the service provider or MDU owner should put in a layer 3 device to better control the users in the building on a single feed.

Captain Video, Paul, it is good to see you commenting again!

Wow, it sounds like you are not only a customer of iProvo/Broadweave/MStar/NuVont/Veracity/Homenet/etc. etc. etc., it sounds like you have a huge (emphasis in your case on the huge) stake in their success or failure.

The only reason braodweave exists is they have a forced monopoly on Traverse Mountain due to the HOA. You can't even cancel you phone service with them or the HOA will fine you or raise your internet price to match what the phone/internet price was. Hopefully we can topple broadweave from traverse and put the final nail in their coffin.

Was that Billings and Garlick holding hands skipping off into the sunset with big smiles on their faces? Yep, the citizens don't care and they both know they just got away with the biggest political boondoggle in the history of the City of Provo.