A new agreement between Microsoft and Native Network will see 73,500 people living in rural communities in rural Montana and Washington receive broadband internet as part of the Airband Initiative.
White spaces RSS
As part of its Airband Initiative, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Network Business Systems to deliver high-speed internet to 126,700 more people living in rural communities in the U.S.
Microsoft will be collaborating with Agile Networks to deliver broadband internet to 110,000 people living in rural communities in Ohio. This team-up is part of the tech giant's Airband Initiative.
Microsoft is aiming to deliver TV white space solutions to underdeveloped communities all over the world. To that end, it will be collaborating with broadband hardware manufacturing company, RADWIN.
Microsoft's Rural Airband Initiative hopes to boost availability of high-speed internet in rural areas, using TV 'white spaces', similar to the broadband networks it helped to launch in Africa.
Satya Nadella says Microsoft will work with Indian authorities and internet service providers to bring affordable broadband connections to over 500,000 villages, through unused TV 'white spaces'.
Microsoft has announced a new expansion of its 4Afrika Initiative that will bring high speed Internet, via the white spaces wireless method, to the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Microsoft has announced plans to put in Window 8 hardware and TV white spaces Internet access to tens of thousands of students at The University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization in charge of certifying Wi-Fi standards, wants to stop the use of the term "Super Wi-Fi" when used to describe the new white spaces wireless data technology.
New Hanover County in North Carolina has now become the first location in the US to launch a white spaces wireless data network that's designed to offer WiFi-like speeds over long distances.
Microsoft Research is working on what the company is calling "WiFi-NC", based on the white spaces-based wireless Internet standard that will start to expand in 2012.
The FCC approved the first white spaces database and device this week and Microsoft thinks the white space market will be as big, if not bigger, than the current WiFi market.
