MuniWireless

Looks like rural WiMax provider DigitalBridge Communications has found some new friends in the rural telco business, judging by a couple of announcements today from both Digital Bridge and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), which represents some 1,400 rural electric and telephone utilities across 48 states.

The twin announcements — an unspecified amount of funding by NRTC into DigitalBridge, and an agreement under which DigitalBridge will participate in WiMax rollouts by NRTC members — seem squarely focused on helping rural…

After reading earlier this week about DigitalBridge’s launch of Mobile WiMax services in Jackson Hole, Wyo., we decided it’s a good time to give blog readers a taste of our Sidecut Report on WiMax, focusing on what service providers like DigitialBridge see as a total cost of operation, or TCO, advantage that WiMax gives them.

In the report excerpt below, DigitalBridge CEO Kelley Dunne says that using WiMax allows service providers to build broadband networks at a tenth of the price…