Lac qui Parle County

Table of goal data by year

Year	Rank	100/20 Mbps
2024	#2 of 87	99.94%
2023	#5 of 87	99.94%
2022	#4 of 87	99.86%
2021	#3 of 87	99.83%
2020	#3 of 87	99.57%
2019	#9 of 87	97.35%
2018	#6 of 87	97.35%
2017	#2 of 87	99.36%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Wired (wireline) and wireless (fixed, non-mobile) served location percentage at various speeds.

Lac Qui Parle (LqP) County: Nearly Perfect

LqP County ranks 2 (up three places) for broadband access out of 87 counties. They have had ubiquitous broadband since 2019; in fact last year, the maps showed 2 households without access to broadband. It would be nice to see their Line Extension award help get them to 100 percent coverage.

• Over the years, LqPCounty (or cities within) has invested $400,000 (total) for matches for 1 successful MN Broadband grants. This is an indicator of local government that is engaged and (literally) invested in better, local broadband.
• LqP County will not benefit from a 2024 MN Broadband grant award in 2024.
• LqP County will benefit from 1 line extension award (Rounds 1 and 2), which extend broadband to individual locations.
• Last years’ estimates indicated that it would cost $7800 to get ubiquitous broadband in the county. (I haven’t updated the number because recent report offers scenarios of costs based on BEAD funding rules that make current estimates less predictable than in the past. Yet, I think the number is still helpful.)
• In 2022, LqP ranked 41 using Microsoft’s Digital Equity Tool, which looks at various factors of a community.