by Surur
1 month
Microsoft has been pushing to use unused spaces between TV channels for broadband internet for more than 10 years now and has been promoting it as a solution for rural broadband provisioning for about as long. In their latest init...
by Surur
3 months
Microsoft has been pushing for White Spaces Internet for more than a decade, with varying amounts of success around the world. Microsoft’s White Space technology offers wide area long distance wireless networking over the old te...
by Pradeep
5 months
TV White Spaces are unused blocks of spectrum located between the frequencies assigned to television stations. It can be used to created wireless broadband connections over great distances. Around the world, Microsoft has used TVW...
by Surur
10 months
Microsoft’s White Spaces Internet project has received a setback after the Indian government failed to grant them a license to continue operating their pilot project at Harisal — a small village in Maharashtra. The village...
by Surur
11 months
Microsoft has partnered with Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities to bring the Internet to students in rural Virginia in Charlotte and Halifax counties. Their new Homework Network will deliver broadband internet access at home to ...
by Pradeep
1 year
Ever since the Indian Government announced the ‘Digital India’ program a few years back, Microsoft has been trying to deploy their TV White Spaces program in India. TV White Spaces technology can offer cost-friendly and acce...
by Surur
1 year
The Economic Times of India reports that Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has been in talks with State Bank of India (SBI) officials on using Microsoft’s White Space technology, which offers wide area long distance wirele...
by Surur
1 year
For many years now Microsoft has been working on providing broad band internet via so-called White Spaces. White Space are the frequency bands in between TV channels, which has been expanded recently with the demise of analogue TV...
by Pradeep
2 years
To improve technology access in Kenya, Microsoft worked with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet Service Provider, Indigo Telecom Ltd., to deliver low-cost, high-speed wireless broadband and c...
by Surur
2 years
Microsoft and the Philipines Department of Education has worked together to create a next generation containerized classroom to deliver education to underserved and unconnected areas in the Philipines. The EGG (so-called because i...
by Anmol
3 years
During the tour of India PM to Silicon Valley, Microsoft’s boss Satya Nadella said the company is keen to bring low-cost broadband internet access to 5 lakh Indian villages. Microsoft will be the first company to take this ...
3 years
We all know that Microsoft is researching in TV White Spaces technology which makes uses of unused TV spectrum to offer Internet. While Microsoft has been deploying this technology in Africa, now they are experimenting in the US t...