Broadband Corridor: In 2001, 18 Utah cities began planning Utopia, an optical-fiber broadband network that would offer data rates at least 10 times that of the local incumbent phone company's DSL service. Eventually, 11 cities guaranteed an initial US $85 million bond issue to fund the network. Phase 1 construction in six cities took nine months, ending this February; phase 2 construction in the other five cities should be finished in June. The network will eventually expand to three additional cities in a third phase. Four of the original 18 cities dropped out of Utopia, which shares some services with a separate network serving the city of Provo.