We are pleased to announce we have been chosen by Palmer Wireless, a Central Minnesota communications company, to provide services that support their fiber to the home and business projects for an awarded Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant. The Minnesota Office of Broadband Development, an arm of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), awarded Palmer Wireless the grant earlier this year.

The Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program recently issued grants to expand broadband service in unserved and underserved regions throughout Minnesota. The grants aim to bring high-speed Internet to nearly 6,100 homes, 83 community institutions and hundreds of businesses statewide. Palmer Wireless, a recipient of one of the grants, will focus on the project to service 300 homes in the town of Clearwater, 21 underserved businesses in the Becker Industrial Park and 12 vacant city-owned lots covering 70 acres in the Becker community.

“Palmer Wireless is proud to have chosen NewCore Wireless as our partner in providing services for our upcoming project. NewCore Wireless has the most experience in rural service solutions and are truly dedicated to this industry and assisting its partners,” said Laura Kangas, Co-Founder of Palmer Wireless. “NewCore Wireless shares our commitment to helping address the challenges of improving network accessibility and keeping up with the ever-evolving demands of today’s rapidly-changing network. They are able to aggregate the needs of multiple companies across the upper Midwest and allow local companies to cost effectively deliver advanced solutions that that have positive impacts on the communities they serve. Together we can expand economic development, create jobs and strengthen the Becker community for many years to come.”

The grant awarded to Palmer Wireless will focus on expanding service throughout the Central Minnesota coverage area. Expanding broadband Internet service has become critical for cities across the nation to compete in the new global economy. Having fiber to the home and business that delivers high speed Internet service has become a game changer for those communities.

“Palmer Wireless is focused on providing the best solution to our end users. In some situations, our 3G and 4G wireless network will be the best fit for a customer, whereas with other situations fiber will be the best solution,” further added Laura Kangas. “With our fiber solution, we will be able to deliver up to 1 Gbps services where previously the coverage area only had access to 3 to 6 Mbps service.”

“We are pleased to have been chosen by Palmer Wireless to assist with providing the solutions they were looking for,” said Paul Vershure, Executive Director of Site Development and Construction Services at NewCore Wireless. “Palmer Wireless has made great strides in providing surrounding residents, municipalities and businesses with better telecommunications services and technology. We look forward to working with them to continue their leadership and service offerings.”

In addition to working with our business partners to provide hosted wireless switching solutions, we also have experience working with Federal, State and Local officials as well as municipality leaders to provide a host of solutions and services in both the wireline and wireless industries. We have provided solutions for Smart Agriculture and agricultural monitoring, wireless surveillance, Wi-Fi solutions for school and school buses, fleet tracking and management and many more.

Contact us to learn more about how NewCore Wireless is leading the Internet of Things (IoT) with its solutions and services!