Via Fastcompany
“Most municipal Wi-Fi initiatives end in the graveyard, but cemeteries are among the few spots not covered by Minneapolis’s new $20 million wireless network, which blankets 95% of its 59 square miles. As an anchor tenant of the system, the city lowered many of its own costs, while capping resident rates at $20 a month. But the Wi-Fi blanket is also a powerful tool to narrow the digital divide for low-income residents.”
ID Insight, a Minnesota-based startup providing enterprise-level identity fraud solutions, today released a "Fastest 25" broadband list. Minnesota’s Ramsey County is #23 of 25 on the list of counties with the country’s 25 fastest Internet connections. The "Fastest 25" list was generated using BroadBand Scout, a new national broadband connectivity and usage database. The top county, Nassau County, N.Y., boasts a median download speed of 15.0 megabits per second and a median upload speed of 4.4 megabits per second.
The counties on ID Insight’s Fastest 25 list include:
by Bob Kelleher, Minnesota Public Radio
“Duluth, Minn. — Just days after Google pitched its nationwide offer to bring super-fast broadband to a winning community, Duluth Mayor Don Ness was elbowing for his city to be first in line.
The youthful Ness quickly formed a core team, and on Feb. 18 threw a community organizational meeting. About 50 of the city’s leading business people mingled with an equal number of largely unshaven geeks to hear the mayor’s pitch. ” (emphasis added)
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