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  "description": "Companies to deploy Tarana’s ngFWA",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-19T00:47:01.000Z",
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  "tags": [
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    "_invested over $400 million_",
    "_Airband Initiative_",
    "_digital divide_",
    "_Mediacom_",
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  "textContent": "June 18, 2025 – Tarana announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring broadband internet to underserved communities throughout Africa.\n\nThe telecommunications company, which provides broadband through its next generation fixed wireless access technology, announced Tuesday that it would be deploying its ngFWA, along with training and technical support, to help “service providers in rural and underserved Africa…”\n\nIn its announcement, Tarana also claimed that “ngFWA delivers high-speed broadband service in both non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions and heavy radio interference, making it an ideal solution for hard-to-reach and underserved markets.”\n\n\n\n_****FROM SPEEDING BEAD SUMMIT****_\n _****Panel 1: How Are States Thinking About Reasonable Costs Now?****_\n_****Panel 2: Finding the State Versus Federal Balance in BEAD****_\n _****Panel 3: Reacting to the New BEAD NOFO Guidance****_\n _****Panel 4: Building, Maintaining and Adopting Digital Workforce Skills****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\nTarana, founded in 2009, has _invested over $400 million_ to create ngFWA. Since the start of production in 2021, Gigabit 1, Tarana’s ngFWA platform, has been deployed in 24 countries and 47 US states.\n\nThe partnership is part of Microsoft’s _Airband Initiative_, which seeks to close the global _digital divide_.\n\n**Basil Alwan** , CEO of Tarana, said that “we admire the Airband Initiative’s mission and appreciate this opportunity to collaborate. We look forward to making significant progress on the digital divide together.”\n\nThis isn’t the first time Tarana has partnered with others in the industry to bring broadband to underserved communities. In 2024 it partnered with both _Mediacom_ and _Osage Broadband_ to bring high-speed internet to residents across the American South and Oklahoma, respectively.",
  "title": "Tarana, Microsoft Partner to Bring Broadband to Africa",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:27:34.368Z"
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