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…
Cal.net, a broadband provider based in rural northern California, won $50 million in the Connect America Fund CAF II auction to provide service at speeds of 100 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream to 20,000 locations and plans to deploy…
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…
The FCC took action today aimed at freeing up and optimizing spectrum for mobile and fixed broadband. Spectrum bands involved include the C-band, CBRS band and TV white spaces band. C-Band The C-band includes vaunted mid-band spectrum between 3.7 and…
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…
The FCC will vote later this month on a proposal aimed at increasing options for fixed and mobile broadband deployments using vacant TV broadcast spectrum, commonly known as TV white spaces. The proposal comes from FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and…
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…
Microsoft, Google and the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) are urging the FCC to allow co-channel spectrum sharing in the C-band. The proposal would allow fixed wireless operators to use the same spectrum band as incumbent users, who are…
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…
One more milestone that had to be achieved before network operators can begin offering service in the CBRS band has been reached. Federated Wireless said today that it has completed deployment of a sensor network to provide CBRS environmental sensor…
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…
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