Microsoft, RTO Wireless Tap White Spaces, CBRS to Reach Rural Maine, New York

Microsoft and RTO Wireless agreed to use TV white spaces and citizens broadband radio service spectrum to bring fixed and mobile wireless broadband to about 290,000 people in rural Maine and New York, the companies said Tuesday. It’s part of Microsoft’s Airband Initiative that seeks to extend broadband to 2 million rural Americans by July 4, 2022, they said. New York GOP U.S. Reps. Tom Reed, Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney and Chris Collins applauded the partnership.