Actually it’s an update that covers most of Sibley County and portions of Renville, Nicollet, and McLeod Counties. According to CED Magazine…

The RS Fiber Cooperative and Hiawatha Broadband Communications plan to bring a new fiber network to Minnesota with the help of Calix systems and software.

The new gigabit service will be deployed across four counties in south central Minnesota. A total of ten cities and seventeen townships will be included in the network.

The initial phase of the network is projected to cost $15 million. RS Fiber Air will be rolled out to 90 percent of the RS Fiber serving area in July of this year. The service includes 25 Mbps Wi-Fi internet service and voice.

The following month gigabit internet will be available alongside video, and voice to customers in Winthrop and Gaylord. Eight additional cities will have access to the gigabit service in 2016 when the middle mile of the network will be completed.