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Brown County

Table of goal data by year
Year Rank 100/20 Mbps
2023 #54 of 87 78.4%
2022 #45 of 87 79.96%
2021 #50 of 87 75.99%
2020 #48 of 87 74.6%
2019 #45 of 87 74.5%
2018 #27 of 87 73.76%
2017 #24 of 87 72.89%

Brown County: Maybe Some Deployment Will Spur More

Brown County rank drops from 45 to 54 for broadband access out of 87 counties. They have 78.4 percent coverage to broadband of 100 Mbps down and 20 up. They have 2268 households without access to broadband at that speed. Estimates indicate that it will cost $21 million to get to ubiquitous broadband in the county.

Brown County seems to have taken a slight bump backwards. Their ranking dipped as the percentage of coverage of broadband. That may change if Hanson Communications gets funding in the latest (still in process) Border to Border grant round.

Brown gets a red ranking because they are going backwards and there hasn’t seen a big demonstration of wanting change.

Household Density

17.0

Number of Providers

19

As of 2023 · Source: MN DEED

Households with Device Access

A Device 86.5% 95.5%
statewide
Desktop or Laptop 76.1% 83.2%
statewide
Smartphone 68.8% 90.1%
statewide
Tablet 51.3% 65.8%
statewide
Other 3.6% 2.3%
statewide

Has Worked with Blandin Foundation

Yes

Has Received MN Grant(s)

Yes

2107 – New Ulm Telecom, Inc.– Hanska A&D FTTP – GRANT $324,894

2016 – New Ulm Telecom, Inc. – Hanska – GRANT: $ 200,397

2019 – Nuvera Communications, Inc. – New Ulm SW Project – GRANT $385,600

2021 – Minnesota Valley Telephone Company (MVTC) – Rural Franklin Fiber Project – GRANT $226,800. This middle and last mile project will serve approximately 45 unserved locations in the City of Franklin and the townships of Sherman, Eden, Camp and Birch Cooley in Redwood, Renville and Brown counties.

Government Districts

U.S. Congress: CD 1, CD 7

MN Senate: 15

MN House: 15B

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