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: 70 Code: Yellow (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Traverse County: a nice increase this year Traverse County ranks 70 for broadband access and 71 for digital equity out of 87 counties. They have gone from almost 50.97 percent coverage … Continue reading
Rank: 80 Code: Red (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Traverse County: on bottom 10 list for broadband With a population density of 2.6, Traverse is unlikely to get better service without community engagement. In 2018, they made a deal with … Continue reading
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 78 Code: Red 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
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
It’s been a great day of broadband conversations around the state. Three regional broadband conferences happened today and I’ll post on each separately. (There will be eight regional meetings leading up to statewide fall conference Oct 12-14.) see video https://vimeo.com/607375381/247c948a57 … Continue reading
Traverse County is not poised to meet the MN broadband speed goals for either 2022 or 2026. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date 2019 2018 2017 100/20 (2026 goal) 49.39 45.62 45.37 25/3 (2022 goal) 67.25 66.14 45.37 … Continue reading
Rank: 50 Code: Yellow (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Grant County: code changes from red to yellow with steady progress Grant County ranks 50 for broadband access and 33for digital equity out of 87 counties. They have seen steady progress … Continue reading
More info from the Perham Focus on West Central Initiative’s Broadening Our Broadband Regional event, which is part of a series of regional events happening before the Fall (online) Broadband Conference… West Central Initiative will host Broadening Our Broadband, a … Continue reading
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
Every year, the Blandin on Broadband blog does County Broadband Profiles (and will do again when the new maps come out) but given the incoming influx of federal opportunities, it seemed a good time to present information for counties to … Continue reading
Back in 2017, Roberto Gallardo was one of the keynote speaker at a Minnesota Broadband conference. He found a way to formulate a Digital Divide Index for each county in Minnesota based on a range of data point especially organized … 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
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. Traverse County broadband ranking has dipped from 50 to 56. I don’t … Continue reading
The MN Broadband Coalition is asking folks to take a broadband speed test – from home, from work, from wherever you are. Why? Because those tests will be used to create a map based on what customers report from the … Continue reading
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