Nextlink Internet has announced details about its plans to bring fixed wireless access (FWA), along with fiber broadband, to underserved and unserved rural communities in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. The company…
September 08, 2022 – ROCKLAND, Maine & MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Redzone Wireless and Tarana have announced the official launch of Redzone’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) network in Litchfield, Maine, covering the town with Tarana’s Gigabit 1 (G1) ngFWA solution to…
The FCC is finally ready to authorize 2 major fixed wireless providers with RDOF funding. This may be just the momentum fixed wireless needs. Have you ever fallen in love with yourself? Some people are taking self-love to a new…
Nextlink Internet and Wise County, Texas, have reached a $1.3 million agreement that will improve broadband available in the county. The agreement calls for 95% of households in the county to get services at 100 Mbps to 500 Mbps. The…
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is helping to fund fixed wireless service for public housing in Cleveland. The company teamed with DigitalC — a local nonprofit focused on connecting the unconnected in the city — on the offering,…
The argument could be made that fixed wireless provider Starry owes its success to technology developed in-house. The company developed the equipment that underlies and differentiates its fixed wireless service. And the company’s Upload Boost offering, announced Thursday, also was…
One of the biggest surprises in the rules that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program was the agency’s definition of “reliable broadband” – at least with regard to fixed…
Resound Networks said today that it achieved gigabit download speeds and 500 Mbps upload speeds over distances of seven miles using fixed wireless equipment in licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands. Resound was one of the largest winning bidders in the…
June 14, 2022 — PHILOMATH, Ore. & MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alyrica Networks, a provider of broadband services over fiber and fixed wireless in Oregon, today announced with Tarana its winning bid to dramatically improve broadband service speeds and availability in Polk…
RDOF winner Resound Networks says that it has successfully achieved gigabit speeds using fixed wireless access (FWA) in the 6 GHz band via an experimental license. The company said that it reached a distance of more than three miles using…
Verizon currently cites a speed of 300 Mbps for its 5G fixed wireless offering, but that speed could increase beginning as early as next year when the company gains access to additional spectrum that it won in the 2021 C-band…
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