Orem-based DynamicCity on Monday announced the first rollout of broadband fiber service for the home through the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network.

Orem residents now have access to the MSTARmetro service, which offers 10 Mbps of upload and download Internet access speed for $39.95 per month. MSTAR is the first local service provider to take advantage of UTOPIA, the largest municipal fiber project in the country with 14 founding cities and 160,000 potential subscribers throughout Utah.

"We are very encouraged by the response MSTAR is receiving for the initial service offerings," said DynamicCity chief executive Keith Wilson, whose company is designing, building and operating the network infrastructure for UTOPIA.

MSTARmetro expects to offer up to 100 Mbps service in coming months, along with integrated telephone and television service.

The new service is UTOPIA's first implementation, providing municipal fiber services to residents of Orem, Brigham City, Lindon, Perry, Cedar City, Midvale, Riverton, Cedar Hills, Murray, Tremonton, Centerville, West Valley City, Layton and Payson.

- Bob Mims

4 teams in urban design finals

Four teams of graduate students are finalists in an urban design contest focusing on two large Salt Lake County parcels in the Magna area.

Teams from the University of Colorado, Harvard, Columbia and the University of Texas-Austin will vie for a $50,000 first prize (the runners-up will split $30,000) in the Urban Land Institute competition.

One site covers 2,208 acres and is centered around 2700 South. Besides that "underutilized commercial and civic focal point" of historic Magna, the site also included surrounding undeveloped lands owned by Kennecott Land Corp. The second site covers an undeveloped 2,000 acres south of Interstate 80 and east of the impoundment berm around Kennecott's massive tailings pond.

A member of each team will visit the sites Friday.

- Mike Gorrell

Supplement firm sues rival

A leading Utah nutritional supplement company is suing a California operation, saying its name brand - Naturalife Inc. - is a trademark infringement.

The U.S. District Court lawsuit was filed by NutraMarks Inc. and Nature's Life Inc., which share office space in Park City.

Under license from NutraMarks, Nature's Life markets a wide range of popular vitamins, skin care and food products. It has used the "Nature's Life" brand since 1974, and holds four related federal trademark registrations.

In 2004, the Utah companies became aware that Naturalife, of Carson, Calif., was selling its own line of dietary supplements and skin care products under a label "confusingly similar."

- Bob Mims