Lehi announces partnership with Strata Networks to build citywide fiber network

Lehi's mayor announced a partnership with Strata Networks on a plan to build a citywide fiber‑optic network that the city says will bring high‑speed internet to every home.

The mayor framed the project as a continuation of the city's history of municipal utility ownership and said the network would be “beneficial” and allow the city to “serve every single home in our community.” A Strata Networks representative told the gathering the company will work with Lehi under a municipal fiber open‑access model intended to allow multiple internet service providers to use the city network, increasing competition and consumer choice.

A Strata representative summarized the company and its approach: “We're headquartered in in Roosevelt in the Uinta Basin, and we've been in business for approximately 70 years.” The representative said Strata's open‑access model enables “multiple internet service providers coming onto the network, which creates a lot of competition, creates pricing parity, improves services, and allows consumers, really more choices in their service provider.”

Speakers said engineering work for the project has already begun and gave a 36‑month timetable for the deployment; they added that construction is anticipated to begin in February (the transcript does not specify the year). The transcript did not specify project costs, financing sources, customer pricing, or how the city will govern or operate the network once built.

City officials and Strata framed the project as both an economic and quality‑of‑life improvement, pointing to increased remote work and at‑home learning since the COVID‑19 pandemic as drivers of demand for reliable home broadband. A Strata representative called Lehi “one of the most thriving, robust and dynamic cities in the state of Utah” and said the company expects the deployment to serve as an example for other cities in the state.

No formal motions, votes, contract awards with detailed terms, or funding authorizations appear in the transcript. The next procedural steps mentioned were continued engineering work and a planned start to construction; the transcript did not set public hearings, financing approvals, or implementation milestones.