
Courtesy Lehi City
Lehi City’s to start with fiber optic purchaser poses with the town council and mayor in front of their household on Monday, June 12, 2023.

On Monday, the Lehi City Fiber Network went live with the initially resident joining the provider together with Mayor Mark Johnson and other elected officials.
By Tuesday, 13 inhabitants have been connected to the network with an additional 46 far more orders for assistance according to Shaye Ruitenbeek, fiber manager for Lehi. With about 500 houses in every region, known as a cabinet, the take rate for the initial location is at the moment all around 12%. Ruitenbeek explained their expectation is to strike about 45%.
There are 7,173 distinctive addresses now pre-registered with a 32.90% shielded take level. Ruitenbeek said the buildout timetable is ongoing and the areas of Lehi will be stuffed in based on the design of the community and resident desire. Lehi Metropolis Fiber Community and Strata Networks anticipate the community will be accessible to each and every resident that needs to enroll by 2025.
“Residents have been asking for a fiber community for a long time,” Ruitenbeek said.
As the community is introduced to every new area, Ruitenbeek reported a pre-design letter will be mailed to residents and a postcard will be mailed just after building is total to support residents signal up for an world wide web company supplier when they are ready for set up.
Lehi Metropolis executed the $68 million deal with Strata Networks in 2022. Strata layouts, constructs, operates and maintains the network while the metropolis owns the infrastructure and funds the challenge.
Around the earlier calendar year, they have worked on creating the construction of the network, procuring supplies, accumulating subject details, heading via the city’s evaluation procedure, getting permits, setting up the community, and considerably additional to get the fiber community ready for residents to begin connecting.
Residents in the Traverse Mountain Master Affiliation are excluded from the network offering since of an current “telecommunications easement that we are not ready to cross,” Ruitenbeek stated.
The procedure requires two to three months, commence to end, to put in the program. Ruitenbeek instructed the Lehi Metropolis Council Tuesday that construction of the community will take 40-50 days positioning the fiber normally takes 30-35 times running fiber from the company terminal to the home/enterprise requires 1 or two days and putting in the terminal normally takes a single working day.
“We’re attempting to have as nominal of an impression as doable as we’re heading as a result of with design, and when a resident has introduced up a worry, we deal with it speedily,” Ruitenbeek explained.
Section of the Lehi Fiber Network project is making certain the community is reasonably priced for all inhabitants as a result of the Cost-effective Connectivity Program, a federal profit that presents a price cut of up-to $30 a thirty day period on residents’ ISP monthly bill.
“It is actually important to have a application like that out there simply because we simply cannot say that we want to convey fiber to all Lehi households if we’re not building it reasonably priced for most people,” mentioned Jeanteil Livingston, Lehi communications supervisor.
Assistance providers functioning with the Lehi Fiber Community Plan involve BeeHive Broadband, CentraCom, Intellipop, SumoFiber and XMission. To indication up employing ACP, a resident ought to initially sign up by means of the federal government’s website and, right after acceptance, they can speak to their ISP about qualification for the price reduction.
Residents are ordinarily suitable if they also acquire help through the No cost and Diminished-Value College Lunch Application, SNAP, Medicaid, Federal Housing Guidance, SSI, WIC and other applications, in accordance to the town web site.
“As quickly as other people see that our to start with citizens to acquire fiber are content, and they are speaking about how quick their world wide web really is with fiber, I consider that is heading to make other residents soar on board, specially all those that are kind of skeptical right now of fiber,” Livingston mentioned.
A fiber-optic community is a broadband relationship that provides superior-pace internet assistance to its buyers. Lehi City’s community has symmetrical speeds, which means the upload and down load speed is the identical, according to Ruitenbeek. The metropolis network is housed in four shelters, smaller utility properties, connecting to each and every other and people.
“The spine will be a ring all over the town, and that produces a redundant community so that if it will get slash in one spot, it will self-recover which implies that there shouldn’t be a lapse in company, and that’s the main line that all people will link to in these kinds of situations,” Ruitenbeek reported.
Initiatives to make contact with Strata Networks for more data had been not straight away productive, however Strata Networks CEO Bruce Todd praised the electricity of fiber networks in a press launch announcing Lehi’s first purchaser.
“By leveraging the electric power of fiber optics, Lehi City is revolutionizing how its citizens will converse, perform, learn, and stay. … We are excited about the options that lie forward and are pleased to be a section of making good adjust in an already vibrant local community,” he explained.
Utah County is also house to several other fiber networks including UTOPIA Fiber, Google Fiber, SenaWave Fiber and additional. Other networks are nonetheless welcome in Lehi aswell.
“One purpose why we wished to construct this network was to give much more solutions to inhabitants, so we really don’t want to restrict other suppliers by coming in. We want to offer far more solutions on a incredibly substantial-excellent community,” Ruitenbeek mentioned.
Residents interested in registering for fiber can do so on the city internet site. Pre-registering is free for the people and assures they acquire updates on when construction will start out in their region.




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