Minnesota’s Paul Bunyan wins Most Innovative Gigabit Broadband Service for its GigaZone

Paul Bunyan Communications has been named the winner of the Most Innovative Gigabit Broadband Service for its GigaZone project in the Light Reading 2015 Leading Lights awards program. The national award recognizes the communications provider that has launched the most innovative Gigabit Broadband service during the past year. The other finalists for the award were large national or regional corporations including AT&T, C Spire, and TDS Telecom. The cooperative announced the gigabit project Fall 2014 and it will be one of the largest gigabit networks in rural America when the project is done. Already over 7,800 locations in northern Minnesota are in the GigaZone and an estimated 20,000+ will be reached by the end of 2015. The project is expected to take a few years but is progressing ahead of schedule. Once completed it will include the cooperative’s entire service territory of over 5,000 square miles.