I wrote earlier about the $28.5 million coming from the FCC to Minnesota for broadband. BUT I want to follow up with any specific info related to providers or areas getting the funding. The West Central Tribune reports… Internet provider … Continue reading
The Marshall Independent reports… At Tuesday’s meeting, the board also voiced support for a stepped up effort to expand broadband Internet service to rural counties. Yellow Medicine County ranks near the bottom of the list among Minnesota counties for access … 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. Yellow Medicine broadband ranking bumped up from 71 to 69. Earlier this … Continue reading
With funding from the Blandin Foundation, Yellow Medicine County worked with Finley Engineering and CCG Consulting on a study that would look at if and how the county might take on bringing better broadband to all corners of the county. … Continue reading
Government Technology reports on the prospective cost of better broadband in Yellow Medicine County (MN)… A newly completed study looking at bringing broadband service to rural areas of the county calculates that it will cost $20 million to $22 million … Continue reading
In 2014, 26 percent of Yellow Medicine County had access to broadband. (Broadband was defined with lower speeds back then.) Today 82 percent of the county has access to broadband speeds of 25/3 (Mbps down/up) and 29 percent has access to … Continue reading
Minnesota has two broadband speed goals: Ubiquitous access to speeds of 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up (25/3) by 2022 Ubiquitous access to 100/20 by 2026 These are more aggressive than federal standards; the Minnesota Broadband Task Force suggested … Continue reading
In preparation for the 2018 Broadband Conference I have compiled the annual county profiles. For ranking I am using percentage of wired access to speeds of 100 Mbps up and 20 Mbps down – or the state speed goal for … Continue reading
In preparation for the 2018 Broadband Conference I have compiled the annual county profiles. For ranking I am using percentage of wired access to speeds of 100 Mbps up and 20 Mbps down – or the state speed goal for … Continue reading
For the past few weeks I have been posting broadband profiles of each county – all 87 of them! I used data from the Office of Broadband Development, based on surveys from July 2016, tracking each counties access to broadband … Continue reading
The Timberjay reports… Residents here, who have been without reliable Internet access for years, could soon have some of the best broadband speeds in the area, if final funding from the state’s Border-to-Border grant program is approved later this year. … Continue reading
The regularly scheduled eNews has been slightly changed this month, because we have posted the annual MN County Broadband Profiles. We take a look at the top counties, the bottom counties and everything in between – and if you want … Continue reading
Yellow Medicine is not poised to meet the broadband speed goals for either 2022 or 2026 but they created a project for a grant application in the last round. It wasn’t funded, but that sets the stage for engagement later. … Continue reading
Watonwan County is not primed to meet MN broadband speed goals for 2022 or 2026. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date Watonwan 2019 2018 2017 100/20 (2026 goal) 67.75 68.42 64.58 25/3 (2022 goal) 79.21 70.70 65.26 Watonwan … Continue reading
Swift County has gone from 30 percent access to 100/20 in 2017 to 99 percent in 2019. They are poised to meet the speed goals for both 2022 and 2026. Percentage of Served Population by Speed and Date 2019 2018 … Continue reading
