Rank: 3 Code: Green (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) La Qui Parle County: top ranked and getting better Lac qui Parle (LqP) County received an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) award in 2010 that brought Fiber to the Home … Continue reading
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 3 Code: Green 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
Looking at the map from the Office of Broadband Development (OBD), Lac qui Parle (LqP) County is served. They rank third in terms of county coverage (99.57 percent) at speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. The county is … Continue reading
Lac qui Parle is on track to meet both the 2022 and 2026 state broadband speed goals. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date Lac qui Parle 2019 2018 2017 100/20 (2026 goal) 97.35 97.35 99.36 25/3 (2022 goal) … 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. Lac qui Parle broadband ranking has dropped from 2 to 6. There … Continue reading
UMVRDC surveys Local Units of Government every year. They ask a number of questions to help list the most important topics needing attention. Between 2019 and 2020 broadband went from number 4 on the list to number 2! The Upper … Continue reading
Mary Magnuson and I finished our tour of Western MN, with a final visit to the LqP Computer Commuter, a mobile computer lab and classroom that has been touring 6 sites a week around Lac qui Parle County. In 12 … 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 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
From Muninetworks (Institute for Local Self Reliance) on their latest report – featuring Minnesota communities… Our new report, Minnesota Broadband: Land of 10,000 Connectivity Solutions [pdf], showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have taken to … Continue reading
The Institute for Local Self Reliance looks at government pandemic grants and loans… An analysis by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has found that cities, counties, states, and community organizations have established more than 800 programs to provide financial assistance … 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
West Central Tribune reports… Doria Drost, of Lynd, who turns 21 on May 22, is the DFL-endorsed candidate to challenge the incumbent, according to a news release from her campaign. … Drost said her campaign platform is focused on rural … Continue reading
The new MN County broadband maps are now up on the Office of Broadband Development websites- showing percentage of each county with (and without) broadband access. Earlier I looked at how counties ranked for access to 25/3 (the 2022 MN … 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
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