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Point Broadband’s big bet on small-town internet
A $725.1 million debt deal and a merger with Clearwave Fiber have given Point Broadband room to grow. In Foley, Alabama, the work came down to new fiber, old cable boxes and teaching people to stream.
The Maine ISP Betting a Tower Can Beat a Trench - And Reach the Roads Fiber Skips
Redzone Wireless spent years proving that rural broadband does not always need a trench. Its wager is simple: use fiber where it helps, radio where wires get expensive, and keep a Maine support desk close enough to know what an ice storm does to a back road.
The Texas Tech Company That Put 130 Customers on One Radio - and Made Rural Broadband Pencil Out
VGI spent years working around the limits of rural wireless. Then a skeptical pilot hit 600 Mbps, one water-tower radio carried more than 130 customers, and a granite-bound Texas community finally got a credible alternative to slow broadband.
Sail Internet
Sail Internet is a Santa Clara-based internet service provider that uses a hybrid of fiber and fixed-wireless technology to deliver high-speed, no-contract broadband to homes and businesses across the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Founded in 2015 by Stanford-trained broadband engineers, the company positions itself as a customer-first, net-neutral alternative to incumbent cable and telecom giants, reaching residences, multi-dwelling communities, and enterprises with gigabit-class connectivity that skips costly trench-and-dig infrastructure.