Shingle Springs, California-based Cal.net and Winters, California-based Winters Broadband are merging, the companies announced today. Both companies offer broadband service using fixed wireless technology. The combined companies will operate under the Cal.net name, and will operate over a territory of…
If at least 200 MHz of point-to-point mid-band spectrum were made available for fixed wireless, the U.S. could reduce the need to subsidize rural broadband deployments, said Claude Aiken, president and CEO of the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA),…
Data Stream Broadband, a Florida based rural WISP, is adding 5G capability in parts of rural Virginia using Ericsson equipment. Data Stream intends to partner with Spotsylvania county for a 5G proof of concept trial with the deployment. Data Stream…
Wisper Internet and Microsoft have broadened the companies’ relationship in the Airband initiative to include the latter’s global skills initiaitive, which offers curated learning for subscribers in the wireless ISP’s six state footprint. Microsoft’s global skills initiative has elements from…
Mascoutah, IL (February 9, 2021) – Wisper ISP, Inc. is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP). Wisper Internet has been offering satellite as an alternative to their fixed wireless technology for residents in Illinois since 2015. The Wisper Team is…
Nextlink Internet today announced it has expanded its broadband services in Iowa and Nebraska through the acquisition of three other three internet service providers (ISPs) for an undisclosed amount. Future Technologies of Lincoln, Neb.; Affordable Internet Solutions (AIS) of Waverly,…
Washington, DC, December 29, 2020 – The Multifamily Broadband Council (MBC) and WISPA have long worked together, most recently partnering on WISPA’s last WISPAPALOOZA trade show, in which MBC hosted its annual conference as the MDU track of the yearly…
Seventy-seven percent of wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) surveyed by equipment maker Cambium Networks said that they “are optimistic about their capacity to service their business and residential customers.” This compares to 66% who expressed such optimism in the company’s…
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…
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