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DynamicCity Re-acquired in Management Buyout Today the management team of DynamicCity, the industry leader in open access fiber-to-the-home networks, announced they have completed the re-acquisition of the assets of DynamicCity. This move comes just fifteen months following the acquisition of DynamicCity by PacketFront of Stockholm, Sweden. "We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to work with our clients and customers in building a new broadband nation," said Cory Turner, who will be taking over as President of DynamicCity. "Our principal objective in reviving this organization is to ensure our nation's competitiveness in the global economy of the twenty-first century. This requires a new, twenty-first century approach to our telecommunications infrastructure, where every resident of every community is provided with access to affordable, ultra-capacity communications services." This acquisition will allow DynamicCity to continue to work in an advisory and operational with communities who are looking for superior solutions to the common duopoly of telecommunications services in their communities. DynamicCity assist communities in planning, financing, building, and operation next generation telecommunications networks capable of delivering competitive world-class services that improve business productivity, accelerate economic growth and enrich the lives of residents. About DynamicCity
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| NATOA Awards UTOPIA 2008 Honor
for Community Broadband Fiber Project of the Year "The NATOA Board of Directors is proud to announce it has
awarded the 2008 Community Broadband Fiber Project of the Year award to the Utah
Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA). The award recognizes UTOPIA’s
vision and perseverance in development of an open, non-discriminatory, fiber-optic infrastructure for
the residents and businesses of 16 member communities in Utah, and for demonstrating the capability
of local communities to encourage and facilitate fiber communications projects."
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| PacketFront Buys DynamicCity "This acquisition is about taking the best thinking in North America
on open access broadband and public broadband initiatives and combining
it under one roof," said Matt Wenger, President of PacketFront Inc. "Our
most important product is our customer's success and we all know that
technology alone does not guarantee that. With the addition of the
DynamicCity team we can now offer the local experience, knowledge and
capacity our clients need to design, finance, build and manage
large-scale, successful open access networks."
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Broadband Properties Summit Highlights Municipal Fiber Networks ...Many of the presenters, including Ben Gould, vice president and chief marketing officer of DynamicCity (Lindon, UT), touted the economic benefits of FTTH networks. According to Gould, FTTH can drive economic development when three ingredients are present: 1) bandwidth, 2) availability, and 3) price. DynamicCity's flagship project is UTOPIA, an all-fiber, Ethernet-based network that, when completed, will serve 170,000 homes in 14 Utah communities. It is based on a principle Gould calls an Open Service Provider Network (OSPN), in which the network infrastructure is made available to as many competing third-party service and content providers as possible to enable greater subscriber choice and lower costs...
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So, You Say You Want A Revolution? Well, You Know... ...DynamicCity, Inc., for example, designs, finances, builds and operates last mile, fiber-optic, Open Service Provider Networks providing true broadband, service provider independence, economic infusion and life-enhancing services to the communities which it wires. Open Service Provider Networks enable communities to provide open, accessible, affordable, and reliable broadband Internet at speeds from 100 Mbps to more than 1 Gbps from a range of competing content, commerce, communications and application service providers....
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Open Service Provider Networks: Taking America's Communities Into The Digital Age From the telegraph to the telephone
to the cell phone; from commercial radio to the television
set; from the personal computer
to the Internet, America has paved the way toward bringing new forms of communication, entertainment, and education to the home and workplace. But America’s current telecommunications
business models are sending the nation into broadband decline relative to the rest of the world. While U.S. consumers and businesses are struggling with decisions about DSL, T1, or other slow, limiting, and expensive broadband mechanisms, our global competitors are leaving us by the wayside as they deploy affordable, very high capacity broadband service....
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Fiber Update: Controlling Your Broadband Destiny ...To get a clearer view into the construction, operation and technology behind the UTOPIA project, we arranged a follow-up interview with DynamicCity, UTOPIA's primary provider. We spoke with Ben Gould, their CMO and Jeff Fishburn, CTO. Dynamic City is in the business of building, financing and operating open service provider networks. Such networks exist in many parts of the world, with Scandinavia leading the way...
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Municipal Broadband Bills Come Under Fire Opinion: Wireless and wired-line competitors for municipal broadband agree on one thing-legislation that turns local control over to incumbent carriers is anti-competitive. And recent telecom mergers make it more so. If not for politics and broadband, Ben Gould and Ron Sege might not have much in common. As chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, Gould sells fiber to the premises, or FTTP, solutions. As CEO of Tropos Networks, Sege delivers metro-scale broadband solutions wirelessly over mesh networks...
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Orem's DynamicCity is First to Roll out UTOPIA Service Orem-based DynamicCity on Monday announced the first rollout of broadband fiber service for the home through the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network. Orem residents now have access to the MSTARmetro service, which offers 10 Mbps of upload and download Internet access speed for $39.95 per month. MSTAR is the first local service provider to take advantage of UTOPIA, the largest municipal fiber project in the country with 14 founding cities and 160,000 potential subscribers throughout Utah...
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The Broadband Wars Need Recruits If you lived in Orem, Utah, a town of nearly 100,000 people south of Salt Lake, you'd be able to sign up for 10Mbs symmetric broadband service from a small, local ISP, MSTAR. How did this little ISP pull off this feat? With a lot of help. MSTAR offers the service, but it doesn't own the infrastructure. The infrastructure is owned by UTOPIA, a consortium of 11 Utah cities and towns that have banded together to offer their citizens better broadband service. ...
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MSTAR Launches Telecommunications Service in UTOPIA Cities MSTAR launches telecommunications service in UTOPIA cities -- Residents in Orem now have fiber-to-the-home access to voice, video and Internet services through MSTAR, the first local service provider on the UTOPIA telecommunications fiber-optic network. Residents can access the MSTAR metro service for $39.95 per month. MSTAR is the first local service provider on UTOPIA, which serves 14 Utah cities including Orem, Cedar Hills, Lindon and Payson and 160,000 potential subscribers throughout Utah, according to a statement issued Monday by UTOPIA operator Dynamic City Inc.
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Small Telecom Carriers Focus on Providing Choices ...DynamicCity, based in Lindon, Utah, has focused on creating a fiber-to-the-premises, open-access network in the Salt Lake City area. With funding through bonds issued by the state of Utah, DynamicCity began building the 14-city Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network in late 2004. The company announced the first service on UTOPIA Monday, with ISP MSTAR.net LLC providing 10M bps (bits per second) of Internet access at costs lower than slower cable modem service in the area. DynamicCity plans to offer 100M bps access later this year, according to the company...
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DynamicCity Claims UTOPIA Milestone OREM, Utah -- DynamicCity, an Open Access Architect for transformational fiber-to-the-home projects, announced today the first rollout of breakthrough broadband fiber service to the home utilizing the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network. UTOPIA is based on DynamicCity's Open Service Provider NetworkT (OSPN) network in Orem, Utah. Residents now have access to the MSTARmetro service, offering 10 Mbps of upload and download Internet access speed for $39.95 per month, representing 3 times faster service at less cost than cable broadband access. On a per megabit basis, the cost of MSTARmetro is less than $4 per month, compared to at least $15 per megabit for either cable or DSL access, and up to $200 or more for dial-up...
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In the Spotlight: DynamicCity Municipalities mulling their own fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) initiatives have long been watching Utah’s multi-city open-access muni-FTTP project, dubbed Utopia. Some have even put their own plans on hold in favor of waiting to see how efforts like Utopia turn out. A told-you-so moment for Utopia will probably come within a year, says Ben Gould, chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, the consultants guiding Utopia. Gould won’t say how many other muni customers Utopia has in its pipeline (but admits they include multi-city projects), but he was able to provide an update on the project and its future...
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Cities Roll Out Broadband, Dismayed By Private Sector Efforts The politics of broadband could enter a new phase shortly with the pending launch of a high-speed municipal-owned infrastructure in Utah, and movement on a wireless broadband network in Philadelphia... “There is lot of momentum in trying to get real broadband service to companies,” said Ben Gould, chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, the lead technology provider to UTOPIA. Gould said the development of UTOPIA had been delayed by legislative fights against a ban on municipal telecommunications networks. “We were distracted for a good long time, but the people in Utah won that battle” when the bill was defeated.
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DynamicCity Selected as Best New Service Finalist DynamicCity was honored in December 2004 as a finalist in the category of Best New Service, Private Company in Light Reading’s inaugural Leading Lights telecommunications industryawards program. Nearly 300 companies submitted entries for the Leading Lights awards. DynamicCity’s selection as one of a handful of finalists places the company in an elite group that are being recognized for outstanding performance in by the editors and analysts of one of the top publications in the fiber optics industry: Light Reading.
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DynamicCity Featured on Wall Street Transcript The company was recently included in a feature Q&A segment covering OSPN and the company in the Wall Street Transcript.
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DynamicCity to Present at Optical Broadband Opportunities Conference in March DynamicCity CEO Keith Wilson will be presenting on Ensuring the Feasibility of FTTH in a Municipal Deployment at the upcoming Optical Broadband Opportunities Conference on March 30-31, 2005 in Atlanta. Topics include:
The theme of the conference is Implementing Revenue Generating Services in the New FTTH Marketplace.
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DynamicCity to Speak at DigitalCity Expo in April 2005 Keith Wilson, DynamicCity CEO will keynote and Ben Gould, CMO will present on the opportunities and issues surrounding open access networks at the upcoming DigitalCity Expo on April 18-19 in Washington, D.C. Keith Wilson Keynote Topic: Open Service Provider Networks: Promoting Americas Technology Infrastructure Ben Gould Presentation Topic: The Role of Marketing in Developing a Municipal FTTP Project For more information on the conference
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DynamicCity Re-acquired in Management Buyout