Editing Reason Foundation (section)

===Municipal broadband===
In 2006, Reason Foundation issued a report criticizing a [[municipal Wi-Fi]] project [[iProvo]] in [[Provo, Utah]] as financially unstable and ineffective at lowering Internet costs or raising broadband use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spinning its Wheels|url=http://reason.org/news/show/127662.html|publisher=Reason Foundation|last=Titch|first=Steven |date=1 December 2006}}</ref> iProvo proponents responded vigorously with a white paper rebutting Reason's conclusions.<ref name="desertnews">Tad Walch, ''Deseret News'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20070110235141/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C650218722%2C00.html "Provo lashes iProvo critics"]</ref>

In 2008, Reason issued a follow-up report entitled, ''iProvo Revisited: Another Year and Still Struggling''. According to Reason, the predictions in its first report had proven true: "iProvo's total losses are likely to exceed $10 million by the end of this fiscal year – and that figure doesn't include the $39.5 million borrowed to launch the project, most of which still needs to be paid back."<ref>Reason Foundation Press Release: "iProvo Losses at $8 Million and Counting" http://www.reason.org/news/iprovo_municipal_wifi_broadband_update_041608.shtml {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421003903/http://reason.org/news/iprovo_municipal_wifi_broadband_update_041608.shtml |date=2008-04-21 }}</ref> Reason called for the city to "cut its losses" and sell the network to a private company. Shortly after the 2008 report was issued, the mayor of Provo, [[Lewis Billings]], who had been highly critical of the Reason reports, announced that iProvo would in fact be sold to a private enterprise, Broadweave, for $40 million.<ref>''Deseret News''. "iProvo, Broadweave Nearly Close Deal" [https://web.archive.org/web/20080701163248/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700239528,00.html]</ref>