Rank: 21 Code: Yellow (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Hubbard County: needs another great leap forward Hubbard County had a great leap in access in 2020. They have stayed stagnant since then. And I don’t hear much from them. Projected … Continue reading
Becker County is in a precarious position. They might make the speed goals for 2022, but they have little chance of making the 2026 goal. The reason that gap is a problem is that the majority who today are feeling … Continue reading
Rank: 29 Code: Yellow (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Itasca County: recent grant will help improve access Itasca County has seen very small incremental increases in broadband over the last few years. But they showed a boldness in last 2020, … Continue reading
Happy New Year! We are interrupting our usual eNews with links to the annual Minnesota Broadband Profiles (and a few related sites). But before we do there are just a few opportunities we wanted to highlight: EVENT: Jan 25: Internet … Continue reading
Rank: 23 Code: Green (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) Sherburne County: Great improvement Sherburn County has worked with the Blandin Foundation. They renewed their interest in broadband access in the last two years, certainly during the pandemic shut down. After … 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
MN Broadband Task Force March Meeting The Broadband Task Force heard about broadband in tribal areas from Jason Hollinday at Fond du Lac and about digital equity from Bernadine Joselyn at the Blandin Foundation. How does your county rank for … 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 Using maps and data from the Office of Broadband Development and stories collected … 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
St Cloud Times tells the story of an unhappy fiber customer (Jake Soenneker) in rural Sherburn County. Jake wanted better broadband. He championed an effort to make it happen, talking to his neighbors and getting them to sign petitions. He … 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
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
I am working on the annual broadband county profiles and I built a table (with the help of Mary Magnuson) that I had to share. It guestimates the cost to deploy ubiquitous broadband in Minnesota ($2.7 billion) and I was … Continue reading
Last week, I looked at how Minnesota Counties ranked for access to 100 Mbps down and 20 up, which is the state speed goal for 2026. Today I wanted to look at ranking for access to gig access. I’m always … Continue reading
The Office of Broadband Development has released the county broadband maps and numbers; the data was collected by October 2021. For archival reasons, I’ll do three different posting looking at: 2021 MN County Ranking at speeds of 25/3 2021 MN County … Continue reading
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