Quest to expand DSL service

Nearly 80 percent of Eagan residents will have access to high-speed Internet service by the end of this summer under Quest's new DSL expansion plan.
The company already has added one "deployment" of DSL infrastructure and plans to add three more in the next few months, corporate spokeswoman Melissa Reffel said.
The 15-member Eagan Technology Task Force, a group that included the chief technology officers of Thomson West, Northwest Airlines and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, concluded in January that only about 50 percent of residents and small businesses had access to DSL, or digital subscriber lines. The city then approached Quest to expand its service in the city.
"Clearly, this underscores that by focusing as a community and involving business, far more was accomplished than what the city could have done alone," city spokesman Tom Garrison said.
"We are pleased by this, but we are not done. We will try to identify the remaining service gaps and work to get them filled," he said.