Lower Sioux Indian Community

Lower Sioux Indian Community has had good broadband since we started looking in 2019. They had ubiquitous coverage to 25 Mbps down and 3 up. The progress with faster access (100/2) broadband has been quick.

In April 2017, Mediacom announced that they upgraded their customers on the Lower Sioux Reservation to their Gig access.

In November 2022, they received almost $2 million as part of the NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) to directly connecting 47 unserved Native American households, 3 businesses, and 13 community anchor institutions with fiber to home qualifying broadband service at speeds up to 10 Gbps symmetrical.

In October 2024, the Institute for Local Self Reliance featured Fond du Lac and other MN tribals communities building broadband mentioning that the Tribe had partnered with a company to develop the project, but ownership over the network assets remains unclear.