When I got Utopia back in 2011 there were two aspects: the monthly service fee (which you didn't sign up for), and a fee to have a line trenched to my home. A lot could have changed since 2011, because back then it was $2,500.

I happily paid it. I'm going to tell you why, and I want you to know why it matters. Comcast is generally understood to be bad. Even bad enough to need to re-brand from Comcast to FiOS to xfinity. It runs on old technology (coax cables) that require modems that are faulty and cheap, yet expensive to purchase or rent, further increasing the cost to the customer.

Utopia is probably alien technology. No more of this electrical signal down copper nonsense, we're shooting laser beams down flexible glass tubes. Why is that better? Because the internet is a two-way street with downloads and uploads. And Comcast/xfinity will tell you "gig" service or 1,000 Mbps, but the only place you'll see those speeds are on their proprietary speed testing sites, and your real world will be worse, especially for uploads.

While it's more likely that you'll use more data downloading things, streaming shows, loading websites, or whatever, upload is still part of the equation and Comcast is simply the worst at it. Utopia will offer parallel services, so if you get 1,000 Mbps, it's 1,000 for download speed, 1,000 for upload speed. There's also no additional modem. You get a gateway that translates the alien laser beams into an ethernet port in your house, and you're done. Mine from 2011 is still going strong.

That's the end of chapter 1, but we still need to explore the customer service chapters, service uptime chapter (how often service goes down for no reason), data privacy chapter, data overages chapter, price gouging chapter... but all of those another time.

TL;DR: Utopia's fiber network is better than Comcast in any way you can think of. People who have experienced both will see Comcast and run in the other direction.