Polar Communications will extend broadband network this spring Polar Communications is using a $21.2 million loan and grant combination from the United States Agriculture Department's ReConnect program to provide broadband technology to rural households and businesses in North Dakota. 12:02 pm, Mar. 3, 2021 × On customers' homes, Polar Communications installs an enclosure, like the one pictured here, that covers the connection of underground fiber and fiber inside. (Grand Forks Herald photo) PARK RIVER, N.D. – Polar Communications this spring will begin the second phase of a project to bring high-speed broadband internet to customers in northeast North Dakota who previously had insufficient access. Also during that round, Daktel Communications, of Jamestown, was awarded a $1.8 million grant to provide broadband service to about 400 households and three educational facilities located in an area of 354 square miles.