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Also, as part of the deal for coming to Provo, Provo city sold the existing fiber network to google for a single dollar and google's job was to upgrade the system to gigabit.

So this is definitely a new construction/infrastructure laying project, unlike Provo where it was mostly a purchase of the existing fiber network.

Lots of network infrastructure in Provo - like bringing gold to a golden city.

So with Provo having so many young people and being a technology hotspot, why do you think the public fiber project failed?

Austin was selected on April 9, 2013, and Provo was selected a week later.

The area between Salt Lake and Provo has close to 1.5 million people and is very close to being just one big contiguous sprawl.

I live right in between Provo and Salt Lake City, and I can't get it.

RepDrive is a young, VC-funded SaaS startup in Provo with the vision of empowering businesses by making it easy to manage and build their online reputation.

(Google purchased the infrastructure for $1.) Provo is a very unique city.

It's a nice consolation prize for those of us between Salt Lake and Provo because while we aren't on the Google Fiber roadmap we still (seemingly) reap some of the competitive benefits of it being nearby.

I guess they may think it's cool to ostracize people who live in "Provo, UT" (which is nice, by the way) because they don't go to enough art festivals, but the business of day-to-day living is much less complicated in those places.

There are only a couple hundred thousand people living in SLC itself though, and only a hundred thousand in Provo.

They're owned by the same parent company, and in fact a lot of the HG servers are moving over to Provo.

I wonder what this means for the metro Provo/Salt Lake Area.