North Dakota Ag News Headlines Dalrymple Applauds Co-ops for Fiber Optic Networks North Dakota Ag Connection - 04/12/2012 Gov. Jack Dalrymple Wednesday celebrated the completion of two fiber optic networks that serve more than 8,000 rural residents in south central North Dakota. After more than eight years in the making, Dickey Rural Networks and Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative have completed their fiber optic networks, providing broadband communications services to farms, businesses and residents in a 10,000 square-mile region. The coops believe the two networks represent the largest geographic area served by fiber-to-home communications in North America. "These two independent cooperatives have invested $50 million to provide their rural customers with reliable, high-speed broadband connections," Dalrymple said. "It is commitments like this that are playing an important role in North Dakota's continued economic growth and quality-of-life enhancements." Dalrymple spoke at a news conference at Jamestown College to announce the completion of the fiber optic networks. Other speakers included Keith Larson, manager of Dakota Central Telecommunications, and Jeff Wilson, manager of Dickey Rural Networks. Send this article to a friend Other North Dakota Headlines Hoeven: No-Cost Sugar Program Serves American People Dalrymple Directs Flood Assistance to NE North Dakota 10 Soybean Farmers to See Checkoff in Action Dairy Focus: Reducing Shrink With Feed Yard Management N.D. Planting, Emergence Ranging 10-80 Percent Behind 2012 Coalition to Introduce Sugar Amendment to Senate Farm Bill NDFB Scholarship Winners Announced Copyright © 2013 - USAgNet.com. All Rights Reserved.