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Midcontinent Communications: E-rate funding and districts served

Midcontinent Communications holds $4.3M in E-rate funding commitments across 5 states in FY2024-2026, serving 63 applicants in FY2026. Here is where, for what, and which of those contracts end soon.

Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin · updated nightly from USAC open data
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0applicants

Contracts ending within 12 months

Midcontinent Communications's E-rate contracts that reach their end date in the next year, by applicant.

63applicants

Incumbent today

Applicants Midcontinent Communications served in FY2026. Each one is a district to defend, or to take.

17% of its FY2026 requests had a single bidder
15applicants

Lost to a rival this year

Applicants that bought the same service from another provider in FY2026.

Most to South Dakota Network, LLC
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$1.4M
committed FY2026
63
applicants served
5
states
0
contracts ending, 12 months

Commitments by year

Funding yearCommitted
FY2026$1,361,797
FY2025$1,442,423
FY2024$1,501,836

By state and service

Minnesota $1.9MSouth Dakota $1.3MNorth Dakota $702KKansas $375KWisconsin $678Data and internet $4.3M

Largest applicants served

ApplicantStateServicesCommitted
Ecmecc OfficesMNData and internet$143,641
South Dakota State Dept Of EdSDData and internet$138,566
St. Francis Area Schools 0015-01MNData and internet$73,668
Forest Lake School Dist 831MNData and internet$69,157
Bismarck School District 1NDData and internet$68,730
Basehor-Linwood Usd 458KSData and internet$62,208
DakotabilitiesSDData and internet$57,132
Nd School NetNDData and internet$55,642
Huron School District 2-2SDData and internet$50,742
Ind School Dist 911MNData and internet$36,120
Spearfish School District 40-2SDData and internet$34,294
Martin Co West Sch Dist 2448MNData and internet$33,741
Dickinson School District 1NDData and internet$31,200
Detroit Lakes School Dist 22MNData and internet$30,244
Piper Unified School Dist 203KSData and internet$30,211
Independent School District No 2144MNData and internet$29,133
Meade School District 46-1SDData and internet$27,180
Holdingford School Dist 738MNData and internet$27,041
Williston Basin Sd #7NDData and internet$27,000
Harrisburg School District 41-2SDData and internet$26,247
Minot School District 1NDData and internet$25,920
Yankton School District 63-3SDData and internet$23,940
Tonganoxie Unif Sch Dist 464KSData and internet$20,556
St. Croix River Education DistrictMNData and internet$17,755
Cold Spring School Dist 750MNData and internet$17,280

Who is winning at its districts

Providers that sold the same service in FY2026 to an applicant Midcontinent Communications served in FY2025.

ProviderApplicants won in FY2026
South Dakota Network, LLC5
Tekstar Communications, Inc.4
DCN,LLC2
Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.2
Kansas Fiber Network,LLC2
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Compiled from public records and refreshed nightly; last updated Oct 18, 2026. Figures are as USAC publishes them; committed amounts are funding commitments, not payments. Contract end dates on June 30 are left out because many applicants enter the funding-year end instead. Check the source before acting. See something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.