For the past 2 years Microsoft’s Airband initiative has been providing internet access to rural households in the U.S. and is now expanding internationally by focusing on Africa and Latin America. The ...

Airband Communications Inc., a Dallas wireless broadband provider, has landed $20 million in private equity financing to help it double in size. Airband chief executive Mike Ruley said he plans to use ...

Think about your day — did you join friends or coworkers on a video conference call, check social media or pay a bill online? Each activity has one requirement in common: reliable, high-speed internet ...

Specifically, said Ruley in a CRN.com interview, Airband would like to see its indirect channel sales account for at least 50 percent of its overall business, up from the 20-or-so percent it is now.

Through its Airband Initiative, Microsoft has been working to close the digital divide over the last four years by expanding broadband access in rural parts of the US. But reliable, affordable ...

Closing in on three years since the launch of its five-year Rural Airband Initiative, Microsoft has today provided an annual update on how it will be moving ahead in the coming months. For those ...

The partnerships with broadband providers will bring high speed internet access to an additional 40 million people. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

There is a new project from a Big Tech company that aims to tap into satellite internet, and it is with the recent partnership of Microsoft and Viasat to bring the Airband project to focus on ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to bring connectivity to underserved, rural communities across the United States as ...

Airband, the broadband provider for rural homes and businesses across the West of England, has successfully closed a significant £100 million (€118.3m) debt package from an international banking ...

PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwired - May 7, 2013) - United Network Services, Inc. (UNSi), a provider of data network and carrier services, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Airband ...

It may be home to the fabulously wealthy satellite towns south of Manchester and have the world-famous Roman city of Chester as its capital, but the county of Cheshire is essentially non-urban, and to ...