Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 49 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
Despite a region-wide focus on broadband, Sibley is unlikely to meet the 2022 or 2026 MN speed goals. But the region-wide focus will keep the vision alive. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date 2019 2018 2017 100/20 (2026 … 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. Sibley County broadband ranking has slipped from 41 to 42. There has … Continue reading
In 2014, 90 percent of Sibley County had access to broadband. (Broadband was defined with lower speeds back then.) Today 59 percent of the county has access to broadband speeds of 25/3 (Mbps down/up) and 50 percent have access to … Continue reading
Big news (from KNUJ) for a Minnesota community that has been working hard for fiber for many years. Congrats! RS Fiber Broadband to break ground Wednesday – KNUJ The RS Fiber Cooperative fiber optic broadband initiative will officially break ground … Continue reading
Mark Erickson (Minnesota fiber advocate and Withrop City Administrator) will be speaking with Craig Settles (Broadband Strategist) on Craig’s Gigabit Nation Broadband Talk Radio Show on Monday November 12 at 1:00 PM. Here’s a description… In community broadband planning, you … Continue reading
Last night I attended the RS Fiber Joint Powers Meeting in Winthrop, MN. While the meeting had long been scheduled, the agenda took a new turn the morning prior when Sibley County dropped out of the region-wide plan to pursue fiber … Continue reading
Today I attended the Sibley County Commissioners’ Meeting. I expected to hear Economic Developer Tim Dolan speak about the RS Fiber project for 15 minutes. ( I recently wrote up a quick review of the RS Fiber project for folks … Continue reading
RS Fiber has been working on community spear-headed fiber project; they have hit some speed bumps along the way – mostly a series of postponed votes, which have put the project in a holding pattern. It looks like the next … Continue reading
Last week we reported that RS Fiber in Renville and Sibley Counties is holding off any decisions on a community fiber to the premise network. The New Ulm Journal posted more details… Minneapolis attorney Robert J.V. Vose of Kennedy & Grave, representing RS Fiber – … Continue reading
Nothing ever goes as quickly as we want – and the folks in Sibley and Renville Counties are learning that again. They had planned to vote on the option to move forward with their fiber network plan on Tuesday night … Continue reading
A quick update on the Sibley County Commissioners’ vote from earlier today thanks to KEYC in Mankato… Sibley County Commissioners voted to move forward with a multimillion–dollar fiber optic broadband project that would bring faster Internet to Renville and Sibley Counties … Continue reading
Tomorrow is a big day for folks in Sibley County – especially for folks who live in the outskirts of town, between towns or the back and beyond. Tomorrow the Sibley County Commissioners vote on whether or not to be … Continue reading
Last night I attended the public meeting of the Joint Powers in Sibley County to hear about their progress towards getting broadband in their area. They have been working on this for quite a while. The local governments (cities and … Continue reading
Sibley County’s quest to consider a countywide, county-supported fiber optic network hit a bump in the road. As you may recall they held a meeting earlier this month where they discussed borrowing $63 million and repaying the bonds with revenue … Continue reading
