Gigabit service provider Starry Inc., working with Microsoft through the Airband Initiative, will provide broadband to underserved communities in Detroit. The agreement will bring the low-cost Starry Connect digital equity program to all serviceable addresses in zip codes in the…
Watch Communications, which has been a member of the Microsoft Airband initiative since last July, has announced broadband projects in Indiana and Illinois. The projects will feature partnerships with rural electric cooperatives to bring broadband to customers in those two…
The two biggest winners in the Connect America Fund CAF II auction have joined the Microsoft Airband initiative, which aims to make high-speed broadband available to three million unserved people in the rural U.S. by mid-2022 – primarily through fixed…
Competitive fiber provider Zayo said today that it will provide backbone fiber connectivity to support Microsoft Airband. Airband is Microsoft’s initiative that aims to bring high-speed broadband to three million people in rural areas of the U.S. where service isn’t…
ARK Multicasting and Microsoft will test combining two technologies — NEXTGEN TV and white spaces fixed wireless broadband – in efforts to reduce the broadband gap in rural America. The initiative aims to reduce ISP network congestion by offloading on-demand…
A partnership between Nextlink Internet and Microsoft aims to bring broadband to hundreds of rural communities in six states through the Microsoft Airband program. The partnership will provide broadband in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. “This partnership will…
The latest Microsoft Airband partner is Watch Communications, which will work with Microsoft to bring high-speed broadband to 50 counties in Indiana, 22 counties in Illinois and most counties in Ohio. The Microsoft Watch Communications partnership will use a variety…
When Microsoft announced plans two years ago to work with network operators to bring broadband to rural areas lacking broadband service, the company had no problem finding network operators to participate in the program, dubbed Microsoft Airband. “Our phone was…
Microsoft has joined a growing chorus of critics of FCC broadband availability data. The company’s concerns came to light as part of an update about the company’s Airband rural broadband initiative provided by Microsoft President Brad Smith, who also said…
Native Network and Microsoft Corp. have teamed up to provide broadband internet access to approximately 73,500 unserved people in rural communities in Washington and Montana, the companies announced today. The partnership is part of the Microsoft Airband Initiative, which plans…
Microsoft has chosen Redline Communications to supply equipment for the Microsoft Airband initiative to bring fixed wireless broadband to rural areas using vacant TV spectrum known as TV white spaces. The Microsoft Airband Redline deal involves Redline’s Virtual Fiber radio…