Comments on: FTTH Communities in MN – help compile the list http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/ News and information on broadband use, policy, and trends Mon, 21 May 2012 14:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Map of Fiber Areas in MN « Blandin on Broadband http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-2717 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:26:25 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-2717 [...] done it. I have created a map of fiber areas in Minnesota based on information I gleaned from an earlier blog post. I was hoping to find an easy way to paste the map into the blog post but I failed. However, the map [...]

]]> By: Ann Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1137 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:23:25 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1137 Thanks to Ann Higgins & MIlda Hedblom for the following update:

Baxter, Nisswa and Brainerd are served by Consolidated (http://www.ctctelcom.net); they offer a full range of services.

Rosemount actually only has a Housing subdivision with fiber. The developer may be in violation of his contract wit the City as he was supposed to build out beyond the development and hasn’t.

Albertville is in a similar position as Rosemount; one housing development is covered; it may be the same developer.

Hugo’s fiber was built but the network was not lit.

Many of the other communities have co-op telephone companies with fiber infrastructure but the lines to the customers are not necessarily fiber.

]]> By: Ann Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1111 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:58:09 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1111 Thanks to Wally Conhaim for the following update:

Liberty on the Lake in Stillwater, a newish community developed by Homer Tomkins, has fiber to the home. Fiber played an important role in their marketing to new homebuyers.

]]> By: Ann Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1054 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:14:24 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1054 Geri,

That’s great – thanks so much for the firsthand update. If you think of it, please send an update when Menahga is up and running. We’ll all help you celebrate a little.

]]> By: Ann Treacy http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1053 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:11:44 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1053 Randy,

Thanks! I was able to find that list online
http://www.rvallc.com/CommunitiesList_050106.pdf

Perhaps we’ll gather enough info to help with an update.

]]> By: Geri Salmela http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1049 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:33:00 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1049 Hello. We currently have DSL available to 100% of our members in the cities and outlying rural areas of Menahga, Sebeka, Verndale, Aldrich, Nimrod and Wolf Lake. DSL speeds are up to 1.5M. The city of Sebeka is FTTH (100% of city and a few nodes outside of the city limits) and the same speeds apply. Our service is $34.95 per month for 256k, however in the FTTH areas a triple play is offered at $97.95 per month which includes a 1 M downstream/512 upstream service. With the bundle of telephone, digital TV and DSL at the $97.95 price, the DSL is around a $20 per month fee. We are close to cutting over our Menahga city homes to the FTTH technology, and then the same bundled options will be available to them. So, in September, you should be able to add Menahga to the communities with FTTH list.

]]> By: Randy Sukow http://blandinonbroadband.org/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1047 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:10:26 +0000 http://blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/ftth-communities-in-mn-help-compile-the-list/#comment-1047 TIA and the FTTH Council released a state-by-state list of nearly 1,000 FTTH communities, including 33 Minnesota communities, in April 2006. They do not appear to have published an update.

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