TruSpeed is bringing big city connection to Minnesota’s rural backbone
A new broadband internet provider has made connectivity its primary concern, aiming to remedy those nagging moments of buffering videos and twirling circles of all varieties in every app and website.
For too many in Minnesota, living in outer suburbs and rural areas offers gorgeous views, economic and other benefits, but also brings inconvenience in terms of internet speeds.
In an increasingly online world, that lag can have real consequences. Especially in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, when entire families are constrained to their homes, connection matters.
Slow speeds that may have previously caused confusion, exasperation and more than a little bickering before the coronavirus can now be brutal as each and every resident of some households is expected to use the internet full time
For families with multiple remote workers and students, this simply isn’t tenable.
Luckily, TruSpeed has been working hard to bring brand new broadband internet options to the good people of Chisago County, including Chicago City, Osceola, Wyoming and the surrounding area.
TruSpeed will launch in the coming weeks and offer a variety of internet broadband packages for every household’s needs.
The basic package on offer will include 25 mbps of download data and 3 gigabytes upload, but TruSpeed is eager to meet every need with offers of 50 mbps download and 6 upload, ranging all the way up to 100 mbps in download data and 10 mbps of upload.
This is made possible because the team at TruSpeed has spent the past year reaching out to area residents and organizing efforts to access the tallest service towers available, the only ones capable of reaching rural areas with dense tall tree cover and other obstructions.
Doyle Land, co-founder of TruSpeed, knows what a nuisance the struggle of rural internet usage can be from his 20 years spent living and working in Chisago.
Land’s former football teammates Eric Mostrom and Kevin Danielson from their time playing at Northwestern College in Roseville, Minn. first helped to key him into the possibilities in rural broadband.
Eric Mostrom picked up many of the skills required when he started a similar broadband project in Ohio, before returning to Minnesota where the three friends learned of the deep need for faster internet in rural areas.
From then on, the TruSpeed team faced a learning curve for the sake of serving the community. “There’s a lot more to it than adding receptors to the towers,” Land said. “Permits to add equipment, software to verify where the signal works, paperwork, hiring people to climb the towers.”
At the end of the day, that process will turn out great results for customers, Doyle said.
Compared to mixed results from DSL and dial-up, Land says TruSpeed will be true to its name and offer customers the exact speeds and data they sign up for in their personalized plans.
“The name speaks for itself,” Land said.
