Rank: 4 Code: Green (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Clearwater County: from yellow to green and top 5 ranking! Clearwater County seems to have benefited from a Garden Valley Telephone Company upgrade in 2018. At that time, they look poised … Continue reading
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 22 Code: Yellow 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
Clearwater County is likely to meet the state speed goals for 2022; but the outlook isn’t as clear for 2026. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date Clearwater 2019 2018 2017 100/20 (2026 goal) 89.3 89.3 73.41 25/3 (2022 … Continue reading
The 2021 MN County broadband maps are up on the Office of Broadband Development websites, showing percentage of each county with (and without) broadband access. Now I’m looking at the maps that reflects county access to wirelines broadband at speeds of 100 … 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. Clearwater ranking has improved from 23 to 13 with almost 90 percent … Continue reading
MinnPost reports… A group of northern Minnesota counties, cities, towns and school districts are now on the hook for a massive bill from Enbridge Energy after a long-running court saga over the oil and gas company’s property taxes was largely … 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
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
Code: Green Population: 1757 (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Red Lake Reservation has almost ubiquitous access to 100 Mbps down and 20 up. Access to Fixed, Non-Mobile Broadband Name %Broadband (25/3) 2021 %Broadband (25/3) 2019 %Broadband (100/20) 2021 %Broadband (100/20) 2019 … Continue reading
Every year I spend a week writing up county broadband profiles for each county. I take a look at the maps and data provided by the Office of Broadband Development. I track who has received MN Border to Border broadband … Continue reading
The 2021 MN County broadband maps are up on the Office of Broadband Development websites, showing percentage of each county with (and without) broadband access. Now I’m looking at the maps that reflect county access to wirelines broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps … Continue reading
National Association of Counties (NACo) reports… the State and Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds legislation, part of the American Rescue Plan Act, was signed into law by President Biden on March 11. The bill includes $65.1 billion in direct, flexible aid … 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
National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is compiling a list of National Free & Low-Cost Internet Plans. I am trying to build a list for Minnesota. It is a list in the making! Please send any additions, changes or updates to the … Continue reading
According to their Facebook Page, Garden Valley Technologies is offering the following services… Garden Valley Technologies has always believed in giving back to the communities we serve. As we navigate through the spread of the COVID-19 virus, keeping our communities … Continue reading
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