Nextlink, Tarana team to bring rural fixed wireless, fiber broadband to 11 states

Sept. 23, 2022
Nextlink Internet and Tarana have announced a formal collaboration toward implementing large-scale improvements in the U.S. broadband landscape.

Nextlink Internet and Tarana on Sept. 22 announced a formal collaboration toward large-scale improvements in the US broadband landscape.

The companies said they are partnering to bring reliable, low-latency gigabit broadband service to an extensive set of under- and unserved communities and rural regions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.

The partners expect to expand service to hundreds of rural counties over the next several years, covering over a quarter million households.

In the strategic alliance, Nextlink is using Tarana’s G1 platform to compete in local markets with fiber providers, taking market share with rapid deployment of fast, affordable broadband service.

Nextlink noted it is also using the platform to go above and beyond its regulatory commitments, delivering 500 Mbps service where it was obligated to deliver 100 Mbps service.

Finally, Nextlink plans on utilizing a combination of fiber and gigabit fixed wireless to meet its RDOF obligations. The companies maintain that Tarana is uniquely positioned to help Nextlink deliver on all of those promises.

Tarana’s G1 platform can deliver gigabit services at impressive distances and in non-line of sight (NLoS) paths. The difference is a technology which Tarana has termed “next generation FWA” (ngFWA), powered by Tarana’s proprietary, purpose-built broadband architecture featuring fundamental advances in real-time radio signal processing.

The company says it unique approach "enables reliable, fiber-class service in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum, and is a perfect complement to a fiber build, delivering superior blended economics and shorter deployment timelines."

Tarana CEO Basil Alwan commented, “Our mission from the start has been to enable materially faster progress in closing the world’s persistent digital divide — we’re honored and excited by our collaboration with Nextlink to that end.”

Nextlink’s network initiative is also leveraging a new set of G1 capabilities from Tarana.

Learn more about those at Tarana’s upcoming product launch event, to be live-streamed on September 27. You can register to attend here.

Bill Baker, Nextlink’s CEO, concluded, “The digital divide remains a pressing issue for most Americans in rural areas, and service affordability is also a big problem in many mainstream markets. G1 is enabling us to address these issues at large scale at a pace measured in months instead of years. Early users on the network are enjoying affordable, uncapped high-speed internet access. We’re looking forward to building this network out quickly.”

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