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McLeod County Broadband Profile 2021: Red rating: Ranking out 74 of 87

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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Rank: 74 Code: Red (See Blandin Foundation interactive map) McLeod County: maybe the tide has turned McLeod County’s ranking has been slipping over the years. Their percentage covered has been stagnant. But this year they have received their first State … Continue reading →

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2022 Minnesota Broadband County Profiles – from Aitkin to Yellow Medicine

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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eNews: MN Monthly Recap Oct 2022: MN County Digital Equity Profiles

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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HBC Expands Service Area in Miesville

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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Good news for Miesville from HBC… – Like many rural communities around the country, the town of Miesville has had limited access to broadband service. But this will soon change with a project currently underway by Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) … Continue reading →

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How does your MN County rank for access to broadband at 100/20?

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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Catch up with RS Fiber on latest Muninetworks’ Community Broadband Bits podcast

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Ann Treacy
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It’s always interesting to hear what’s happening with RS Fiber. They have been innovative and yet straightforward with their broadband solution. Local Self Reliance’s Chris Mitchell talked to a few folks in the years to hear what happening now… We’ve … Continue reading →

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Digital Divide Index show readiness for impacts of COVID quarantines: Most MN counties ready but not all

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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How much will it cost to deploy ubiquitous broadband in your MN County? Check the table

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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How does your MN county rank for broadband gig access?

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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A report on the status of broadband in many MN communities from Muninetworks

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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From Muninetworks (Institute for Local Self Reliance) on their latest report – featuring Minnesota communities… Our new report, Minnesota Broadband: Land of 10,000 Connectivity Solutions [pdf], showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have taken to … Continue reading →

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Oct 2021 MN County Ranking at speeds of 25/3. How does your county rank?

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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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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Charter waves a red flag on RDOF results based on map inaccuracies

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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Fierce Telecom reports… Charter Communications filed a waiver request on May 11 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) related to its award in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction. Charter, like all RDOF auction winners, promised to bring broadband to unserved … Continue reading →

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2021 MN Broadband County Ranking for 25/3 speeds – how do you rank?

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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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 reflect county access to wirelines broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps … Continue reading →

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Renville County Broadband Profile 2020: Red rating: Ranking out 65 of 87

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Ann Treacy
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Rank (from 100/20 megabits per second): 65 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 →

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2021 MN Broadband County Ranking for speeds of 100/20 – how do you rank?

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Ann Treacy
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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 →

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