Rank: 59
Code: Yellow
(See Blandin Foundation interactive map)
Grant County: code changes from red to yellow with steady progress
Grant County ranks 59 (down 9 places) for broadband access out of 87 counties. They have 77.81 percent coverage to broadband of 100 Mbps down and 20 up. They have 692 households without access to broadband at that speed. Estimates indicate that it will cost $6.4 million to get to ubiquitous broadband in the county.
| County | Residential Location Density | number of residential locations | ≥ 100 Mbps Download/20 Mbps Upload Speeds | unserved households | Cost to close gap |
| Grant | 5.3 | 3,032 | 77.18 | 692 | 6435600 |
They had seen steady progress since 2018 leading to 77.71 percent coverage to broadband of 100 Mbps down and 20 up but they now seem stuck there. Although Runestone Telephone received a Border to Border grant in December 2022 to serve 406 unserved locations in Grant, Stevens, and Traverse Counties.
They maintain their yellow ranking because of their limited progress in the last three years.
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | |
| 100/20 (2026 goal) | 77.18 | 77.71 | 71.99 | 60.3 | 43.02 | 39.93 | 39.93 |
| 25/3 (2022 goal) | 92.15 | 96 | 95.44 | 88.22 | 87.85 | 87.85 | 75.73 |
Grants:
- Runestone Telephone Association, $2,493,637.00 (to serve Grant, Stevens and Traverse counties)
Find more articles on broadband in Grant County. (http://tinyurl.com/z9n7ea6)
I am doing the annual look at broadband in each county – based on maps from the Office of Broadband Development and news gathered from the last year. I’m looking at progress toward the 2022 (25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up) and 2026 (100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up) and will code each:
- Red (yikes)
- Yellow (warning)
- Green (good shape)
The maps below on the left comes from the Office of Broadband Development interactive map, reflecting data updated on Oct 31, 2023. Red dots represent locations unserved with wireline broadband; the Orange dots represent underserved locations. The map on the right comes from the FCC National Broadband map showing access to wired and licensed fixed wireless access, the darker the color, the greater percentage of broadband coverage.
