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
Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 70 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
The 2021 MN County broadband maps are up on the Office of Broadband Development websites, showing percentage of each county with (and without) broadband access. Now I’m looking at the maps that reflects county access to wirelines broadband at speeds of 100 … Continue reading
KARE11 News reports… The Senate’s infrastructure bill would bring billions of dollars in improvements to Minnesota. The $1 trillion infrastructure package received bipartisan support in the Senate, passing 69 to 30 with 19 Republicans joining Democrats. The bill, which still … Continue reading
Earlier this week Bernadine Joselyn, Mary Magnuson and I had a conversation with Kristian Braeken at Region 9 about their telehealth plans and programs (supported with Blandin Foundation funding). It’s interesting to hear about what they are doing and the … Continue reading
Literacy Minnesota recent release a statewide report on digital equity needs (by county). The report looks at three questions: What counties have high digital access, economic, education and English language learning needs? How have organizations adapted to the pandemic and … Continue reading
Registration for the Fall Broadband conference is open! Come to the Grand Casino Mille Lacs on October 11-13 to explore how to maximize public and private broadband investments in your community. Hear from communities who have forged the trail for … Continue reading
Second looks at the Minnesota Broadband Ranking In April we took a look at how local broadband proponents can use the Minnesota Broadband Rankings: What can we learn from 2020 MN Broadband County Rankings County Broadband Profiles and County Rankings as … Continue reading
I was working on something completely different – when I had to find broadband adoption rates in Minnesota. The best I could find was access in the Census. The good news is that the numbers appear to be pretty recent … Continue reading
Medical Express recently posted an article that reports that telehealth is an important tool for rural hospitals for treating COVID-19… Telehealth connects patients with doctors by computer or telephone when in-person appointments are not possible or safe from disease transmission. … Continue reading
October was a big month because the annual broadband conference and release of the 87 MN Broadband County Profiles; subsequently we are reformatting eNews to capture those big events. We’ll be back to usual format next month! 2021 MN Broadband … Continue reading
The new MN County broadband maps are now up on the Office of Broadband Development websites- showing percentage of each county with (and without) broadband access. Earlier I looked at how counties ranked for access to 25/3 (the 2022 MN … 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
Today’s eNews is a little different. First, the fall Broadband Conference starts tomorrow. It’s not too late to sign up. Second, the annual County Broadband Profiles have just been released; we how you rank. OPPORTUNITY! Broadband 2020: Connected We Stand … Continue reading
The Cornell Policy Review recently posted an article that caught my eye – Rural Connection: Increasing Broadband Infrastructure to Meet 21st Century Needs. It made the case that rural areas need broadband. Here’s their conclusion… Time will tell whether or … Continue reading
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