Internet and phone options for Hermantown businesses
Fibre is reported for business service at about 23% of Hermantown’s 4,509 locations, more than four times the share in Duluth next door. Cable is reported at about 80% and the older copper network at about 85%, so most Hermantown addresses have two wired choices and roughly one in four has a third. These Hermantown figures are from the FCC’s National Broadband Map, data as of December 31, 2025.
By provider, the FCC’s map shows Mediacom at 93%, Lumen (CenturyLink) at 85% and T-Mobile at 77% of Hermantown locations for business service, with AT&T at 19%, Verizon at 14% and Midcontinent Communications at 7.5%. For a Hermantown office that means asking about fibre before assuming cable is the fastest thing on the street, and it means a second line of a different kind is usually available for the day the first one drops.
We are vendor-neutral, so for a Hermantown address we compare what each of those carriers actually offers there against how the office uses its phones and internet, and say which combination makes sense.
The businesses Hermantown runs on
The Census Bureau’s 2022 Economic Census counts the businesses inside Hermantown’s city limits; these are the largest Hermantown groups among the industries we serve:
- Retail. 69 retail establishments in Hermantown employ 1,791 people and need card payments that work every time and guest wi-fi kept apart from the till.
- Healthcare. 56 health care and social assistance establishments in Hermantown employ 978 people and need backed-up records and staff who can spot a phishing email.
- Hotels and restaurants. 27 accommodation and food service establishments in Hermantown employ 557 people and need guest wi-fi, card payments and a phone system that handles reservations.
- Professional services. 21 professional, scientific and technical establishments in Hermantown employ 158 people and need client files that are backed up and a help desk that answers.
- Financial services. 20 finance and insurance establishments in Hermantown employ 122 people and need email protection and written security policies an examiner can read.
Retail employs nearly twice as many people in Hermantown as health care does.
For Hermantown, construction and manufacturing are counted by county rather than by town: County Business Patterns for 2022 counts 559 construction establishments and 188 manufacturers employing 5,223 people across St. Louis County. Job sites and shop floors around Hermantown need phones and connections in places an office network was never designed for.
Schools, local government and nonprofits are on the list of industries we serve as well; the Census business surveys leave most of them out, so there is no Hermantown figure to give for them.
If your Hermantown business holds customer data
Minnesota law (Minn. Stat. 325E.61) requires a business that holds personal information to tell the people affected without unreasonable delay when that data is taken in a breach, and to notify the consumer reporting agencies within 48 hours when more than 500 people must be told. For a Hermantown business the practical step is knowing where customer data sits and who can reach it before anything goes wrong, which is what a security review covers.
How we work with a Hermantown business
Our office is at 1507 Tower Avenue in Superior, about 12 miles from Hermantown by road. Systems are installed at your Hermantown location and your staff are shown how to use them in person. After that Hermantown customers have one number to call, (855) 770-9127, Monday to Friday, 8 to 6.
It starts with a free technology review of your Hermantown office: every phone, IT, security and internet vendor you pay today, and what to keep, fix or combine. The Hermantown review costs nothing and commits you to nothing.