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KUTV 2News
January 2, 2018
21, 2017, file photo, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., center, accompanied by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, right, signs the final version of the GOP tax bill during an enrollment ceremony at the Capitol in Washington. Hatch says he is retiring after four decades inÃâà...
fox13now.com
November 21, 2017
"Bigger businesses with more money would have faster access to the internet and faster access to consumers," said Xmission owner Pete Ashdown, who opposes the proposed rollback. Those in favor of rolling back the regulations say companies need more freedom, so they can continue to improveÃâà...
Deseret News
July 15, 2017
Pete Ashdown, founder and president of Utah broadband service provider XMission, said the amount of internet bandwidth being occupied by streaming has been growing exponentially. "Running this company, we keep constant vigil on the stats relating to how our network is being utilized," Ashdown said.
Deseret News
April 18, 2017
Images from Washington D.C. flood our social media feeds and fly across our screens and devices every day as members of Congress speak from the chambers of the House and Senate. The scenes are impressive, perfectly framed with historic podiums and the marbled walls of the nation's Capitol.
Salt Lake Tribune
February 11, 2017
Odd that the man who supposedly pals around with so many tech luminaries and has sat on committees governing the NSA has no insight into what they were doing with billions of tax dollars yearly, nor did he use his self-described technical expertise to ask the questions regarding digital privacy ofÃâà...
fox13now.com
August 24, 2016
XMission founder Pete Ashdown welcomed Google Fiber to the city. "XMission welcomes Google Fiber to help advance Internet accessibility to Salt Lake City residents. Although this is great news for select residents of Salt Lake City, XMission believes fiber is essential infrastructure to be managed by aÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
May 24, 2016
He was "always willing to do the hard, behind-the-scenes work," says Mike Lee. Tribune file photo Then-Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, right, checks on the. (Tribune file photo) Neil Ashdown, former chief of staff to Gov. Jon. Tribune file photo Neil Ashdown (center) is being mourned by Utah political leaders who.
TheBlaze.com
May 23, 2016
In fact, Pete Ashdown, founder of Xmission, a local ISP in the Beehive State, said the proposed legislation is “unrealistic,” adding that it's comparable to censorship in China. “The Chinese government has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into censorship and have failed at restricting what their peopleÃâà...
CBS News
May 20, 2016
Pete Ashdown, founder of Salt Lake City-based Internet provider XMission, said completely filtering the Internet of porn is impossible from a technological standpoint, citing China's failure to fully restrict its citizens' access to certain parts of the Internet. He said it would likely involve finding and filtering outÃâà...
Reason
January 19, 2016
Although the NSA turned down our request to tour the facility with our cameras, we were able to talk to Pete Ashdown of the ISP provider XMission, who toured the facility as it was being built in 2012. "The NSA Data Center is essentially server space, where they have large rooms with racks of servers," saysÃâà...
fox13now.com
April 25, 2014
Initial estimates are that when fully operational, the Utah Data Center will use as much as 1.7 million gallons of water per day. By comparison, local Internet service provider XMission used 115,000 gallons of water last month to cool a 10,000 square foot data center. XMission CEO Pete Ashdown looked atÃâà...
Deseret News
September 16, 2013
"As the Internet becomes an essential conduit for work, school and entertainment, gigabit availability is essential,” said Pete Ashdown, CEO of XMission. “Only fiber allows this kind ... The cities pledged a portion of their sales tax revenues as security for the bonds, the audit stated. UTOPIA spent nearly all ofÃâà...
TechNewsWorld
August 5, 2013
"It wasn't the Tor network itself that was compromised," Pete Ashdown, founder and CEO of Utah ISP XMission, told TechNewsWorld. "It was the end points, and there are any number of exploits you can run against a Web server." However, some Tor hidden services users reportedly complained that theirÃâà...
RT
July 11, 2013
Pete Ashdown (Image from peteashdown.org) Ashdown's consecutive losses came as little surprise – Utah is consistently ranked among the most conservative US states. But Ashdown still found himself frustrated over the amount of money pervading politics. A candidate running on their conscience isÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
November 18, 2011
"My main beef with the tax code is, as a small-businessman, I don't have any loopholes on the marginal tax rate," he said, when big oil companies and others do. "When you have 80 percent of employment in America done through small business, the wealthy corporations need to pay their fair share.".
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