The place's own network: there isn't one — and what reaches the rooftops instead

ITEM 10 · THE TEST, AND THE PRESENT STATE AS OF THE FCC RECORD OF DECEMBER 31, 2025

Granger owns no network:The one network enterprise ever founded to serve this ground's homes as its purpose is private and recent: NFINET, a startup whose offer, reported in May 2021, was residential gigabit over dedicated point-to-point fiber to a new Granger community for a single upfront payment — $5,000 for five years, $9,250 for twenty — using Hexatronic microconduit and EntryPoint equipment, in operations officer Charles Florance's summary "half technology innovation and half financial innovation." A subdivision-scale fiber utility, sold like a roof: the closest thing to a municipal network an unincorporated place has produced here, printed at its documented size.

The present state, from the FCC National Broadband Map's data as mirrored in November 2026 (collection of December 31, 2025, FCC update of October 19, 2026), prints with its aggregator conflicts whole: internet service reaches 99.74 percent of Granger; fiber is the fastest technology for 88.81 percent of homes in one mirror, while a second mirror of the same FCC data puts fiber availability at 85.87 percent and a third at 36 percent population access — three figures, three mirrors, unnormalized, the FCC's own map being the settler among them. The carriers agree across mirrors: a residential fiber provider listed as "Metronet" reaches about 81 percent of homes at up to 5,120 Mbps — and that name carries a trap this build prints explicitly: the residential Metronet of the FCC listings is the Evansville-based fiber-to-the-home company, not the St. AT&T Fiber stands at about 27 percent; Xfinity's cable passes effectively every home; fixed wireless (T-Mobile, Verizon) reaches about 97 percent. The pattern completes this section's argument: the CDP is among the best-wired unincorporated places in its state, and it owns none of the wire.

Sources:

1. Telecompetitor, May 20, 2021 — NFINET's Granger residential gigabit offer ($5,000 / five years; $9,250 / twenty years); Charles Florance; Hexatronic and EntryPoint equipment.
2. FCC National Broadband Map data as mirrored November 2026 (BestNeighborhood's Granger pages, FCC update October 19, 2026, collection December 31, 2025; ISPReports' Granger page; Allconnect's Granger page, updated November 8, 2026) — coverage, fiber-share and provider figures as printed in the text, conflicts unnormalized.
3. Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Metronet Zing record — the St. Joe Valley Metronet's institutional-only nonprofit / SJVM structure, the basis of the name-collision caution.