{"id":547775,"date":"2010-04-30T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:28:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:28:34","slug":"hickorytech-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547775","title":{"rendered":"HickoryTech is expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mankato-based Hickory Tech is expanding to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Fargo, North Dakota. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hickorytech.com\/about-us\/news-room\/article-detail\/articletype\/articleview\/articleid\/148\/hickorytech-expands-its-fiber-network-to-sioux-falls-sd-and-fargo-nd.aspx\">HickoryTech web site<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The network expansion to Sioux Falls and Fargo will add 350 fiber route miles to HickoryTech\u2019s existing 2,400 fiber route miles. These initiatives are evidence of the company\u2019s commitment to grow its Enventis business services and provide cost-effective, high-capacity fiber-based solutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They have also been increasing \u201cthe capacity of its network between Minnesota and Des Moines, Iowa and is investing in local fiber infrastructure in Des Moines to grow its Enventis business services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So it will be interesting to see the growth pattern. They are also hoping to expand or deepen their connections in Minnesota. HickoryTech\/Enventis applied for $16.8 million in ARRA broadband grants to extend its middle mile fiber-optic network connecting community anchor institutions across Minnesota to an advanced high capacity broadband network.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3371\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;post=3371&#038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankato-based Hickory Tech is expanding to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Fargo, North Dakota. According to the HickoryTech web site\u2026 The network expansion to Sioux Falls and Fargo will add 350 fiber route miles to HickoryTech\u2019s existing 2,400 fiber route miles. These initiatives are evidence of the company\u2019s commitment to grow its Enventis business services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}