MN County Broadband Profiles• Lincoln • Otter Tail• Kanabec• Pope• St. Louis

Lincoln County – currently ranks #74Broadband Coverage in Time (%) How broadband looks today…

Purple = underserved = 57% / Pink = unserved = 43% / 40% have access to 100/20

Lincoln CountyCommunity Efforts• Lincoln, Murray,

Pipestone, Lyon, Yellow Medicine and Chippewa are to do a regional broadband study.

Provider Efforts• ITC received a State Grant in 2014 • Possible CAF 2: $390,651 for 401

locations• Providers* in the area:• Interstate Telecom Coop (DSL, Fiber)• LTD Broadband LLC (Fixed Wireless) • Frontier (DSL)• Mediacom (Cable) • MVTV Wireless (Fixed Wireless) • Speednet (Fixed Wireless) • StarPoint (Fixed Wireless) • Woodstock (Fiber)

*Doesn’t include mobile or satellite.

Otter Tail County – currently ranks #70 Broadband Coverage in Time (%) How broadband looks today…

Purple = underserved = 59% / Pink = unserved = 41% / 2% have access to 100/20

Otter Tail County

Community Efforts

• Fergus Falls has been very active in promoting telework.

Provider Efforts• Otter Tail Telcom received a State Grant in 2014• Otter Tail Telcom received a State Grant in 2017• Possible CAF 2: $1,421,898 for 3305 locations• Providers* in the area:

• Arvig (DSL, fixed wireless, • CenturyLink (DSL, • LTD Broadband (Fixed Wireless)• Mediacom (Cable)• MN Valley Telephone (DSL)• MVTV Wireless (fixed wireless) • New Ulm (DSL)• RRCNet (fixed wireless)• Rise (fixed wireless)• StarPoint (fixed wireless)

*Doesn’t include mobile or satellite.

Kanabec County – currently ranks #84 Broadband Coverage in Time (%) How broadband looks today…

Purple = underserved = 34% / Pink = unserved = 67% / 26% have access to 100/20

Kanabec County

Community Efforts• Kanabec is a Blandin

Broadband Community • There is a

Kanabec Broadband Initiative• They have been part of

the East Central Regional Broadband.

Provider Efforts• Possible CAF 2: $1,421,898 for 3305

locations• Providers* in the area:• Benton Coop (DSL)• Frontier (DSL)• CenturyLink (DSL)• Genesis (fixed wireless)• Midcontinent (Cable)• Mille Lacs Energy Coop (fixed wireless)• Windstream (DSL)

*Doesn’t include mobile or satellite.

Pope County – currently ranks #67 Broadband Coverage in Time (%) How broadband looks today…

Purple = underserved = 62% / Pink = unserved = 38% / 24% have access to 100/20

Pope County

Community Efforts• Pope County Initiative

group working on broadband study• EDA invested $3000 for

fiber to local business• EDA worked with Verizon

to choose local provider for fiber to tower

Provider Efforts• Possible CAF 2: $33,275 for 58 locations• Providers* in the area:• Arvig (DSL)• CenturyLink (DSL)• Charter (cable)• Cloudnet (fixed wireless)• Federated (fiber)• Gardonville Coop (fixed wireless)• Info Link (fixed wireless)• Mediacom (Cable)• Mid-State Telephone (DSL)• MVTV Wireless (fixed wireless) • Runestone (DSL)• Starbuck Telephone (DSL)

*Doesn’t include mobile or satellite.

St Louis County – currently ranks #39Broadband Coverage in Time (%) How broadband looks today…

Purple = underserved = 82% / Pink = unserved = 18% / 39% have access to 100/20

St Louis CountyCommunity Efforts• Cloquet Valley Internet

Initiative has been working for better broadband • Feasibility study was

done in 2013

Provider Efforts• Received ARRA funding• NESC received a State Grant in 2015• Mediacom received a State Grant in 2015 And 2017• Possible CAF 2: $7,079,246 for 16,229 locations• Providers* in the area:

• Access Broadband (Fixed Wireless) • AirFiber (Fixed Wireless) • Arvig (DSL)• CenturyLink (DSL, fiber)• Charter (cable)• Frontier (DSL)• Mediacom (Cable) • Lake County (fiber)• LakesNet (fixed wireless)• Mediacom (cable)• Midcontinent (cable)• Nextera (fixed wireless)• Paul Bunyan (DSL)• Savage (cable)*Doesn’t include mobile or satellite.