— The city of Willmar since September 2022 has been in the process of planning the construction of a city-wide, open-access fiber network in a public-private partnership with Hometown Fiber.

Fiber uses fiber-optic lines that transmit data at the speed of light, whereas cable uses coaxial cables, which are traditionally used for TV service. Fiber typically offers faster upload and download ...

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So I live in Washington State and I've had DSL since CenturyLink was US West. Now I see that Quantum Fiber (CenturyLink's new name?) is offering fiber at my address. This is exciting, but I have some ...