Mediacom taps Tarana to boost its FWA build in 4 states

Mediacom is proving that even though it's a cable and fiber provider, it's happy to use fixed wireless access (FWA), too. Mediacom will use Tarana’s next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) broadband technology in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina—states where it’s won funding from the Federal Communications Commission's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). The operator’s required RDOF buildout target is 5,694 locations, said Thomas Larsen, Mediacom’s SVP of government and public relations. Those locations will be Mediacom’s “initial focus.” But the company thinks it can reach additional locations that are adjacent to its RDOF areas with Tarana’s ngFWA tech—known as the G1 platform. Larsen added that Mediacom owns CBRS spectrum in 178 counties, so it has the potential to use Tarana’s technology “in a lot more areas” than the states where it won RDOF money.