The New Ulm Journal reports.. Minnesota Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-Hanska, and Sen. Gary Dahms, R-Redwood Falls, have been asked to share their perspectives on the upcoming legislative session with Brown County Commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 1. The discussion on the … Continue reading
Rank: 50 Code: Red (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Brown County: Improvement will be expensive, but they are looking Brown County has seen only very incremental broadband increase since 2017. In 2020, after receiving a state broadband grant, Nuvera reported … Continue reading
The Worthington Globe reports… Senator Klobuchar met with representatives from Nobles, Cottonwood, Watonwan, and Brown County to get updates on their communities and hear about their infrastructure needs. Broadband was a priority… Among the key issues discussed during the meeting … Continue reading
The Worthington Globe reports… Federated Rural Electric’s Board of Directors approved the acquisition of Back 40 Wireless on Nov. 30. Back 40 Wireless is a wireless internet company currently owned by Troy Rasmussen doing business from downtown Jackson. The transfer … Continue reading
Nuvera reports… Nuvera held a fiber Internet expansion launch in Webster, MN on Thursday, Sept. 16 with local and regional representatives as well as the Nuvera team celebrating construction projects bringing faster and more reliable fiber Internet speeds to the … Continue reading
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 47 Code: Red Annually, Blandin Foundation pulls together data from the Minnesota Office of Broadband Development and broadband news to gauge progress toward the state broadband goals (25 megabits per second download/3 Mbps upload … Continue reading
New Ulm Journal reports… While no money was authorized for border-to-border grants for broadband development by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development in 2019, for 2020, Nuvera was awarded $730,000. It is contributing an additional $1.2 million, for … Continue reading
The Daily Hibbing today posts a column from Aaron Brown, voice from the from lines of rural Minnesota and broadband advocate. He details the joys of having fiber during a pandemic… As a result of having high speed internet my … Continue reading
KNSI radio reports… Minnesota is awarding more than $23 million in grants to 30 projects throughout the state to including a couple in Central Minnesota. The money is to help bring high-quality broadband access to 10,900 businesses, homes, and community … Continue reading
The numbers available make it difficult to assess exactly where Brown County is and in which direction they are going. What is clear is that the access to 100/20 hasn’t changed much since 2017. In 2017, they were likely in … Continue reading
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. Brown County ranking has slipped from 24 to 27 but that is … Continue reading
Arron Brown has spoken eloquently on the need for broadband on the Iron Range. He spoke at at the Fall Broadband conference last year – and I remember his joyous column when he got real broadband a few years ago. … Continue reading
The Office of Broadband Development has released the county broadband maps and numbers; the data was collected by October 2021. For archival reasons, I’ll do three different posting looking at: 2021 MN County Ranking at speeds of 25/3 2021 MN County … Continue reading
Lots of opportunity in Hennepin County… Digital Inclusion Week This week is Digital Inclusion Week. At Hennepin County, we are taking time to highlight some of the opportunities to collaborate to ensure all residents have access to the technology they … Continue reading
Big news from Nuvera Communications especially for the following counties: Brown, McLeod, Goodhue, Meeker, Redwood Falls and Scott … Nuvera Communications, Inc. (OTC: NUVR) a diversified communications company headquartered in New Ulm, Minnesota, announced today plans to build and deploy … Continue reading
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