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UTOPIA Fiber says it laid more than a million feet of conduit and fiber across Utah in 2025, according to their 2025 year-end review.
Edited by Brad Randall, Broadband Communities
Along with laying over a million feet of conduit and fiber last year, UTOPIA Fiber says they finished their Bountiful Fiber build a year ahead of schedule.
The details were revealed in their recently released 2025 review.
According to the announcement, UTOPIA Fiber reported 1,034,194 feet of conduit and fiber installed last year, along with 13,728 feet of aerial strand and 3,331 new handholes.
The open-access network’s year-end figures also claim the work enabled more than 9,000 additional homes and 968 businesses to connect, added 6,355 new 1-Gig customers, and with the Bountiful deployment pushed the network past 67,000 total subscribers across 20 member cities.
“Completing Bountiful Fiber ahead of schedule and continuing to grow statewide shows what’s possible when communities invest in fiber infrastructure,” said Roger Timmerman, UTOPIA Fiber’s executive director.
The Bountiful network, UTOPIA Fiber said, is owned by Bountiful City and operated by UTOPIA Fiber.
The project overcame significant hurdles, as has been previously reported by Broadband Communities.
An argument for open-access models
UTOPIA Fiber argues the results are a validation of their open-access model, where publicly owned fiber is separated from retail service and multiple private ISPs compete over the same network.
Nicole Cottle, UTOPIA Fiber’s deputy director, said the model introduces real competition.
Cottle added that customers calling for support reach people “in their own communities.”
UTOPIA Fiber also noted that while 2024 had higher overall construction volume, last year demonstrated how quickly infrastructure investment can lead to finished citywide builds and subscriber growth.
Additionally, listed among their 2025 metrics, 27 homeowner associations completed, to underscore expanding service tiers.
In total, UTOPIA Fiber has partnered with 19 private ISPs while building nearly half a billion dollars in fiber projects across Utah and the West since 2009, the organization says.
Some AI tools assisted in the crafting of this report.
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