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
I am pleased to share the results of a pretty informal but what I think is a very useful charting of Internet speeds in Minnesota Region 6W. Spearheaded by UMVRDC (Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Center), they asked County Commissioners … Continue reading
If you got it, flaunt it. And that’s what Lac qui Parle County is doing with their fiber network through a partnershiph with Southwest MN Careers… MuniNetworks provides a quick history of LqP’s efforts to get better broadband – thanks … Continue reading
Lac qui Parle (LqP) County is well served due in large part to an ARRA grant and partnership between the County and Federated Telephone. LqP County is unlike most counties in that the county seat (Madison) is not as well … Continue reading
For the upcoming weeks I’m working on a County-by-County look at the State of Broadband in MN. My hope is to feature a county a day (in alphabetical order). In November, Connect Minnesota released their final report on broadband availability. … Continue reading
Last Monday I traveled with Bill Coleman to Lac qui Parle County in western Minnesota. I went to work with the LqP Economic Development Authority to promote local businesses via social media. Bill was going to work with Lac qui … Continue reading
Last week, KLQP radio Madison interviewed Renae Tostenson, LqPV Superintendent, about LqVP’s new role as a Blandin Broadband Community. (Listen here.) Renae and host Paul Raymo talk about how the BBC program will promote broadband adoption in the community. They have … Continue reading
In December, the Blandin Broadband Community team met with the nine new Blandin Broadband Communities. I was able to attend some of the meetings and wanted to introduce folks to the new communities when I could. Before the holidays we met with … Continue reading
Last week, I was fortunate to participate in the ribbon cutting for the Lac qui Parle Computer Commuter mobile computer lab. There was a great crowd to tour the bus and try the new laptops before listening to the presentations, … Continue reading
Last week I posted a quick note on the most recent Minnesota ARRA-funded projects – inclduing Lac qui Parle. Here’s a quick reminder of their project… This approximately $9.65 million award to Farmers Mutual Telephone Company will bring Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) … Continue reading
Thanks to my friends at Lac qui Parle EDA for sending me the lastest on their broadband application project… The LqP Computer Commuter is the result of a grant project that began in early January of 2010. The Lac qui … Continue reading
The Lac qui Parle County Economic Development Authority (EDA) has received a $25,000.00 grant from the Blandin Foundation to prepare a Robust Broadband Network Feasibility Study for an Ultra-High Speed fiber optic network across Lac qui Parle County in partnership … Continue reading
Over 30 community leaders from economic development, local government, education, business and health care met yesterday in Dawson, MN to begin a discussion on broadband deployment and use. Lac qui Parle County is in western Minnesota on the South Dakota … 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
