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Utopia officials tell Syracuse City Council subscriptions and revenue trends put network "in a really good place"
Summary
Representatives of Utopia gave the City Council an update on the municipal fiber network, reporting rising subscription counts, a stronger-than-expected revenue trend and ongoing smart‑city uses such as air-quality sensors and wildfire cameras.
Robert Zimmerman, a Utopia representative, told the Syracuse City Council that the municipal Utopia fiber project is seeing accelerating subscription growth and a revenue trend that leaves a practical buffer for the network’s outstanding debt obligations.
Zimmerman said the network now serves more than 3,000 Syracuse addresses and that recent door‑to‑door signups produced a noticeable jump in installs. “We just had the best 3 months we’ve ever had with growth, across all of our systems,” Zimmerman said. He added that most addresses in the city are now capable of 10‑gigabit connections and that the system gives each customer a private connection rather than a shared PON time slot.
The update stressed both customer benefits and community…
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