A worker winds fiber optic cable being buried in Dunn County to connect residents to high-speed internet service. Despite living across the road from newly laid cable, the Langworthys were unable to connect to it because of existing regulations.
A worker winds fiber optic cable being buried in Dunn County to connect residents to high-speed internet service. Despite living across the road from newly laid cable, the Langworthys were unable to connect to it because of existing regulations.
When Lauren and Caleb Langworthy saw a crew of workers digging and laying high-speed internet cable just up the road from their Dunn County farm one mid-July morning, they were ecstatic.
Since purchasing their 153-acre property in 2012, the couple had struggled to communicate using the internet because of the low capacity for that service where they live. Those difficulties have intensified in recent years as high-speed internet has become a necessity for communicating and operating businesses like the Langworthys’ Blue Ox Farm, where the couple raises grass-fed sheep and cattle.
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