Broadband expansion begins in Fillmore County with MiBroadband and MN Broadband grants

KIMT3 News reports

Ground was broken Tuesday on four rural broadband projects in Fillmore County.

MiBroadband was the recipient of $5.15 million in grants from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Border-to-Border Program in 2022 and 2023.  The company says those grants are now helping build out fiber service to areas north of Fountain and Preston and pockets of two rural areas in southern rural Preston.  In addition, MiBroadband is also breaking ground on a self-funded $1.5 million project to bring fiber to the city of Fountain. …

MiBroadband says the projects will provide the fastest and most reliable internet service available to 781 locations.

More information about MiBroadband’s rural fiber projects and future plans can be found online at www.mibroadband.com/internet/ or by calling 507-886-6422.

(See video of story on KIMT website.)

 

 

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Librarian who follows rural broadband in MN and good uses of new technology (blandinonbroadband.org), hosts a radio show on MN music (mostlyminnesota.com), supports people experiencing homelessness in Minnesota (elimstrongtowershelters.org) and helps with social justice issues through Women’s March MN.

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