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Rural Broadband

We partner with internet providers and hardware manufacturers to make affordable broadband access a reality for communities around the world to help eliminate the rural broadband gap.

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10 things you take for granted when you have internet access

How white space can be used for broadband

How unused TV frequencies can connect rural areas to the digital world

Our partnership with BLUETOWN has brought internet to rural communities in Ghana, creating digital transformation in schools. Photo credit: BLUETOWN

The path to prosperity through access to high-speed internet

Shelley McKinley - Head of Technology and Corporate Responsibility, Microsoft

Working together to bring broadband to rural Veterans

Shelley McKinley - Head of Technology and Corporate Responsibility, Microsoft

The rural broadband divide: An urgent national problem that we can solve

Brad Smith - PresidentPresident

Eliminating the rural broadband gap

Microsoft Corporate Blogs

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RADWIN and Microsoft announce strategic partnership to deliver innovative TV White Space solutions

Packerland Broadband and Microsoft announce agreement to deliver broadband internet to rural communities in Wisconsin and Michigan

A Rural broadband strategy: connecting Rural America to new opportunities

a rural setting

Today in Technology: innovation in the heart of America

Brad Smith - PresidentPresident

Microsoft uses “TV white space” to provide internet in Puerto Rico

Halifax County tired of ‘bandwidth exhaustion’

To close digital divide, Microsoft to harness unused television channels

Microsoft wants to close rural broadband gap by tapping unused TV spectrum

Microsoft wants to bring 2 million rural Americans online by 2022

Microsoft courts rural America, and politicians, with high-speed internet