Windstream Expands Broadband Availability Across Iowa With Fixed Wireless
Summary
The income Shari earns working remotely made it possible for the Vanden Heuvels to move to a custom home on 80 acres in Clarke County, and transition into semi-retirement. “ Across the nation, adequate rural broadband is leading the list of policy priorities for industries as disparate as agriculture and education," said Brad Hedrick, president of Windstream Operations in Iowa. For the Vanden Heuvels, the solution is fixed wireless, a microwave spectrum transmission between network ‘node’ and residential transmitter-receiver.” Increasingly, employers like Shari’s are agreeing to remote or commissioned work. Meanwhile, the Vanden Heuvels get to farm and hunt their country parcel and prepare for full retirement without foregoing gainful employment or driving long commutes just to make a high-speed broadband connection. Kinetic by Windstream recently won blocks of 5G spectrum covering 5 million households that paves the way for Gigabit Internet service over fixed wireless infrastructure.