Gaylord, MN – RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) has announced plans to rollout Phone service to residents of Gaylord. RS Fiber General Manager Toby Brummer said the service has been fully tested and is now available to persons living in the City of Gaylord. “Current customers interested in adding crystal-clear [...]
New Auburn, MN – Hundreds of residents in New Auburn and Green Isle turned out for RS Fiber open houses in their communities this week. The open houses were held October 11 in New Auburn and October 12 in Green Isle, where residents an opportunity to meet and visit with [...]
For Immediate Release (10/4/2016) Gaylord, MN – RS Fiber will be hosting a pair of community events next week in the communities of New Auburn and Green Isle to give residents the opportunity to learn more about RS Fiber services. The event in New Auburn will be held Tuesday, [...]
Winthrop, MN – RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) has been presented with the Community Broadband Innovative Partnership Award by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) Board of Directors. The award was accepted on behalf of RS Fiber by Winthrop EDA Director, Mark Erickson, atNATOA’s 36th Annual Conference [...]
Winthrop, MN – RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) is one of three finalists for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines (FHLBDM) Strong Communities Award in the rural category. As a finalist, RS Fiber will advance to a public vote on September 19-30 that will serve as one component [...]
St. Paul, MN – The 10 cities that make up a portion of the RS Fiber Cooperative received the “City of Excellence Award” at the League of Minnesota Cities Conference held recently in St. Paul.. The award, presented June 16, recognized the communities of Brownton, Buffalo Lake, Fairfax, Gaylord, Gibbon, [...]
Winthrop, MN – A television crew from the PBS program Newshour/Weekend was in Winthrop and Gaylord this week gathering interviews for what will become a segment on broadband in rural America and feature RS Fiber. PBS spent Monday visiting with members of the RS Fiber Board of Directors along with [...]
(For Immediate Release 4/14/2016) Winthrop, MN – RS Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) has begun the 2016 construction season with plans to expand the fiber-optic broadband network that was activated last year in parts of Renville and Sibley Counties. Work began last week in Green Isle on the final portion of [...]
Winthrop, MN – A television crew from Winona, MN was in Winthrop to cover the recent G-F-W vs. Sibley East boys’ basketball game held at G-F-W High School on January 14th. HBC Studios produced the game for RS Fiber who intends to rebroadcast the game at a later date to [...]
GAYLORD — Organizers of a years-long plan to bring fiber optic broadband service to 27 cities and townships mainly in Sibley and Renville counties celebrated the first signs of construction at a groundbreaking on Wednesday morning. Board members of the RS Fiber Cooperative and others involved in the project watched the cable get [...]
Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc., (HBC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Toby Brummer as Renville-Sibley Fiber Cooperative (RS Fiber) General Manager. RS Fiber Cooperative General Manager Toby Brummer HBC CEO Dan Pecarina said, “Toby has all the qualities of the ideal General Manager. He has proven management [...]
Economic Development and Fiber Doug Dawson, CCG Consulting The city of Gaylord, Minnesota just announced that a medical school is going to be built there. Gaylord is a small city in a rural county in Minnesota that is known more for growing Del Monte corn and producing ethanol than they [...]
Broadband and Real Estate Doug Dawson, CCG Consulting If you work at home then having broadband is no small matter – it’s your lifeline. This is what I find so dreadful about the thousands of rural communities with little or no broadband. The people in those places do not have [...]
Hiawatha Broadband going gig speed in MN Helena Fahnrich, @CEDmagazine The RS Fiber Cooperative and Hiawatha Broadband Communications plan to bring a new fiber network to Minnesota with the help of Calix systems and software. The new gigabit service will be deployed across four counties in south central Minnesota. [...]
Hiawatha Broadband CEO: How to Make Rural Gigabit Economics Work by Joan Engebretson at Telecompetitor A gigabit project from RS Fiber Cooperative and Hiawatha Broadband Communications set to kick off in Minnesota will focus on small towns and rural areas. Rural gigabit isn’t unusual, as Telecompetitor readers know. But while [...]
David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech The problem, known as the "spectrum crunch," threatens to increase the number of dropped calls, slow down data speeds and raise customers' prices. It will also whittle down the nation's number of wireless carriers and create a deeper financial divide between those companies that have capacity and [...]
By FierceTelecom.com Samantha Bookman, FierceTelecom.com Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) is taking sides on a fiber-to-the-farm initiative in Sibley County, Minn., and it isn't the side of the consumer. Frontier doesn't see a fiber buildout to rural communities as feasible, arguing in a letter to county commissioners that they can provide the [...]
Fiber To The Home Council Website If all you want to do is surf web pages, download a few songs, send and receive some photographs, or watch streaming video at current picture quality levels, then the bandwidth provided by today’s cable modems and DSL services is probably good enough for [...]
The Blandin Foundation has awarded the cities a $40,000 matching grant to conduct a feasibility study for a Fiber To The Home (FTTH) network. The Sibley County Commissioners have provided a $40,000 match for the communities in Sibley County. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
By HYPERLINK "http://www.wired.com/epicenter/author/ryan_singel/" Ryan Singel Craig Settles has an answer for the 1,095 communities that are not going to get Google to build a next-generation fiber optic network in their area once Google chooses a few winners in the coming weeks. Don’t pout, organize. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
Broadband as a vehicle for social transformation Phillip Dampier What a concept. At the heart of the public policy debate for broadband improvement are the implications of universal broadband service in every American home. What such transformation brings to ordinary consumers, entrepreneurs, employers and employees — even the digital economy [...]
Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation Broadband as a Municipal Utility David St. John, FTTH Council The market penetration of fiber to the home is increasing, with more than 5.25 million North American homes now connected directly into fiber optic networks. Fiber to the home (FTTH) is quickly [...]
