Washington, DC, October 20, 2020 – WISPA today announced a new partnership agreement with Tillman Infrastructure, the fastest growing tower company in the United States. This agreement provides special terms that will allow WISPA members to deploy and expand their…
Some wireless internet providers (WISPs) are seeing fixed wireless speeds of at least 100 Mbps in rural areas over distances as great as six miles using CBRS spectrum. Of two WISPs on a webcast with press and analysts today, Watch…
Fixed wireless broadband provider Nextlink Internet said it has purchased Iowa-based Xtreamair, another fixed wireless provider. The Nextlink Xstreamair purchase will expand Nextlink’s footprint into western Iowa, and Nextlink said it will expand the Xstreamair network so that subscribers will…
Demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic is “pushing our members to upgrade both last-mile and backhaul capacity” according to a COVID-19 WISP traffic report from the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). The survey confirmed some trends that WISPA and…
SAN JOSE, CA – July 30, 2020 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced Wisper Internet has selected Calix and the Revenue EDGE solution to help grow its subscriber base by more than 400 percent after conducting extensive competitive analysis and solution testing. Wisper recognizes that…
Washington, DC — July 13, 2020 — WISPA announced today that it has reached a new all-time record for member companies, reaching the 1,000-member mark for the first time in the organization’s 16-year history. Almli Communications in L’Anse, Michigan, has…
Complying with the Keep Americans Connected Pledge has cost the average rural wireless internet service provider about $32,700, according to a member survey conducted by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA). Hundreds of large and small broadband providers signed…
The FCC yesterday released a revised list of areas eligible for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund RDOF auction scheduled to begin in October. The commission initially released a preliminary list of eligible areas in March, which was followed by a…
The nation’s three major wireless carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon – along with Cox Communications and 344 other entities — are would-be bidders in the upcoming CBRS auction, according to documents released late yesterday from the FCC. The auction, to…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is investing $2.7 million in a spectrum sharing project that will be administered by the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR). Although the project initially will focus on maximizing use of the CBRS band,…
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI – May 14, 2020 – Bluebird Network LLC, a Midwest telecommunications company, announces the completion of a three-network integration project, dramatically increasing Bluebird’s fiber network penetration in the state of Illinois. Offering high-speed internet services, cloud connections, high-quality data…
Satellite broadband provider Telesat has joined the rural broadband consortium that Mississippi wireless and broadband provider C Spire established last year. The consortium was created with the goal of spurring broadband adoption and deployment. Other consortium members include equipment providers…