New High-Speed Internet Option Comes to Mankato, Minn. An Indiana-based fiber-optic Internet and cable TV provider is planning to offer service across Mankato, giving local customers an alternative to Spectrum, Consolidated Communications and satellite-based providers. by Mark Fischenich, The Free Press / January 26, 2021 Shutterstock/FlashMovie (TNS) — An Indiana-based fiber optic internet and cable TV provider is planning to offer service to homes across Mankato, giving local customers an alternative to Spectrum, Consolidated Communications and satellite-based providers. MetroNet, which is already in more than 100 communities in eight mostly midwestern states, is proposing "to lay their infrastructure in the right-of-way up and down the vast majority of every street in