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…
Microsoft and rural broadband services provider Network Business Systems will offer broadband access to residents of rural communities in Illinois, Iowa and South Dakota, according to the two companies. About 126,700 previously unserved people are covered by the agreement, which…
Announcements about Microsoft Airband partners have been coming at a fast pace of late. The latest one involves Agile Networks, a competitive broadband provider that has had considerable success with broadband wireless in Ohio. Microsoft and Agile will partner on…
Microsoft has awarded funding to eight startup companies, including four in the U.S., as part of its Airband Grant Fund. All four U.S. Microsoft Airband grant winners will use TV white spaces broadband wireless technology to support their projects, and…
Microsoft today announced another rural wireless partner for its Airband broadband fixed wireless initiative. RTO Wireless, a company focused on rural wireless, will work with Microsoft to bring mobile and broadband fixed wireless service to rural areas of New York…
Microsoft and Radwin are teaming together to bolster the TV White Space ecosystem, through Microsoft’s Airband initiative, which focuses on rural broadband. Radwin will develop and introduce a TV White Space solution. Fixed wireless technology using TV White Space spectrum…
Microsoft and Declaration Networks Group are partnering on a project to bring fixed wireless broadband to 65,000 people on Virginia’s eastern shore over the next three years. The Microsoft Declaration Networks deal is part of Microsoft’s Rural Airband initiative, which…
Microsoft and rural partner Packerland Broadband are aiming for speeds of 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream for a fixed wireless deployment in rural Michigan and Wisconsin that will use TV white spaces and other technologies, said Cory Heigl,…
TV white spaces fixed wireless broadband technology could benefit from small cell deployments, according to Microsoft. The technology giant has been conducting a trial tapping the two technologies in Cambridge, U.K. in a deployment dubbed Microsoft Project Belgrade and has…
Connect Americans Now (CAN), a group designed to ensure access to low band spectrum and to broadband connectivity, announced its launch today. The group is a diverse alliance of community leaders, rural advocates and top innovators that plans to work…
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