

However, city officials noted at the time that in previous meetings TDS would not provide a timetable for such a network. 10 hearing when the Santa Clara City Council approved the UTOPIA network for the city, Peterson issued another statement to the council asking for the UTOPIA plan to be rejected and to give TDS a chance to provide 1 Gbps service to households in the city. The city of Santa Clara is providing backup funding for any shortfalls to UTOPIA Fiber’s bond, though the infrastructure agency that oversees UTOPIA has said it expects subscription fees of users to ultimately make siuch a bond unneeded.ĭuring the Nov. UTOPIA Fiber is funding and building an under-construction fiber-optic network to every address in the city. “Our network will provide Santa Clara residents with the tools to enable their homes for the future,” Andrew Petersen, TDS senior vice president of corporate affairs, said in a statement. Census, that number should cover most, if not all, of the addresses in the city. With 2,407 households in Santa Clara according to the U.S. TDS, which stands for Telephone and Data Systems, said it plans to begin construction in the coming months on bringing high-speed, fiber optic connections to 2,500 addresses in Santa Clara. TDS’ Justin Hearing completes splicing fiber for a new fiber-to-the-home area, location and date not specified | Photo courtesy of TDS, St. GEORGE - In what appears to be a response to Santa Clara entering a public-private partnership to have a fiber-optic, high-speed internet connection to every address in the city, telecommunications provider TDS recently announced it will be expanding its own fiber-optic network to most customers in the city.
