Every year, the Blandin on Broadband blog does County Broadband Profiles (and will do again when the new maps come out) but given federal opportunities are making it possible to get funding for access and adoption, I thought I’d try … Continue reading
Rank: 11 Code: Green (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Swift County: Almost there Swift County ranks 11 for broadband access and 64 for digital equity out of 87 counties. They have hovered between 97-99 percent coverage to broadband of 100 … Continue reading
The West Central Tribune reports… Residents and businesses in Brooten, Danube, Kerkhoven, New London, Pennock and Spicer will soon be gaining access to 1-gigabit broadband connections, thanks to a project by TDS Telecommunications. The telecommunications service provider broke ground on … Continue reading
Rank: 5 Code: Green (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Swift County: Top five broadband access status Swift County’s partnership with Federated Telephone, supported by a MN State grant, has provided nearly ubiquitous coverage. Swift has also been working with the … Continue reading
Every year, the Blandin Foundation does an assessment of how the Blandin Broadband Communities projects. Here’s the update from Swift County … Swift is another fiber to the premise county, having received Border-to-Border Broadband grant funding in 2015. They ranked third … Continue reading
The Swift County Monitor News editor looks at What Biden Should Do For Rural America. They are based off recommendations of professors Lisa R. Pruit of California, Jessica A. Shoemaker of Nebraska, and Ann Eisenberg of the South Carolina, with a few … Continue reading
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 4 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), Swift County is *nearly* green throughout, which means they are *mostly* served with speeds of at least 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up. (In fact the rank fourth for coverage!) … Continue reading
Thanks to Rick in Swift County for picking up the trend… “I’m thankful for broadband because Broadband has widened my opportunities tremendously. It has enabled me to have the role that I have. Broadband came to Swift County, in part … Continue reading
The Blandin Foundation recently published an inclusive assessment of the last cohort of Blandin Broadband Communities. Including a segment on Swift County… Swift is another fiber to the premise county, having received Border-to-Border Broadband grant funding in 2015. They currently … Continue reading
Part of becoming a Blandin Broadband Community (BBC), is the opportunity to show off what you’ve been doing related to broadband in your community. It was great to hear from folks from Swift County. (Get the slides.) They talk about … Continue reading
How much is broadband worth? Depends who you ask. Two recent surveys show vastly different results. Some surveys say $70 monthly while others say $10 monthly. Check out your county ranking Minnesota maps show where fiber is and where it isn’t. See … Continue reading
Thanks to Swift County RDA for sharing this story. I love sharing stories of great use of broadband – so if you have one too, please send it my way… Rick Molenaar has the best of both worlds. He lives … Continue reading
Later this year, I’ll be writing broadband county profiles based on the upcoming mapping. Today I wanted to share ranking for maps created over the summer. I am looking at how counties rank for percentage of households with access to … Continue reading
Rank: 67 Code: Red (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Renville County: Feels like being stuck Renville County ranks 67 for broadband access and 66 for digital equity out of 87 counties. They have stayed stagnant at 70 percent coverage to … Continue reading
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