Meeker County

Table of goal data by year

Year	100/20 Mbps	1 Gbps
2025	#63 – 81.4%	#25 – 73.17%
2024	#51 – 84.27%
2023	#55 – 78.04%
2022	#61 – 72.85%
2021	#77 – 53.86%
2020	#75 – 53.86%
2019	#74 – 45.08%
2018	#57 – 45.08%
2017	#57 – 38.13%

Red dots represent unserved locations.

Meeker County: local providers should be a help

Meeker County has had steady, incremental increase in access since 2017. Meeker County is making good progress. They have several providers interested in the area, yet with less than 80 percent coverage, they retain their yellow ranking.

At the time of writing, the MN BEAD final proposal has not been approved, but the current proposal would mean coverage for 554 locations in Meeker County. The majority of locations will get fiber access but the rest will get satellite, which does not qualify as served in the MN statute.

There is still Line Extension funding yet to be distributed, which helps connect handfuls of  houses just beyond existing infrastructure. (Meeker has benefitted from earlier Line Extension awards. So that seems hopeful for them as well.)

Statewide, there have been changes with local and national broadband providers, which also leads to uncertainty. That might be hopeful for Meeker County with the creation of MC Fiber, under Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power, which is located in Meeker County.