Microsoft is supporting the launch of a Wi-Fi network that utilizes television white spaces, to provide connectivity in rural southern Virginia.
The “Homework Network” is being constructed by wireless internet service provider B2X Online using white space equipment from Adaptrum that consists of base stations on towers or near schools equipped with fiber connections, and radios installed in students’ homes; the technology has a reach of home up to four miles away from the base station, according to a spokesperson.
