News Summary:
Midco recently received Nokia's Breakthrough Award on August 19, 2026, recognizing the company for its successful execution of a significant 400G connectivity project supporting AI infrastructure in North Dakota. Earlier, on June 24, 2026, Midco opened a new operations building in Bismarck, North Dakota, designed to consolidate its network operations personnel. This followed scattered but significant service disruptions on April 11, 2026, affecting internet, TV, and phone customers across South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, despite the company's official outage map showing normal operations. Previously, on June 4, 2025, Midco acquired Savage Communications Inc. Broadband (SCI Broadband), a privately owned Multiple Systems Operator that served more than 90 rural communities throughout east central and northern Minnesota, as part of Midco's mission to expand fiber-optic networks in the upper Midwest.