In the capital city of Tripoli, internet service provider Alkafaa is helping to rebuild Libya’s telecommunications sector by delivering fiber-fast speeds to the city’s residential customers, government institutions and local businesses. Following the disruption of Libya’s civil war, massive investment is now pouring in to rebuild the country’s telecom infrastructure, and the timing was perfect for Alkafaa to bring back desperately needed broadband service.

With a backbone network covering over 4,000 square kilometers and eight metro areas in Mexico, one of the country’s largest Wireless Internet Service Providers, XCIEN, has a clear mission - to provide reliable and high-speed internet to subscribers in both dense urban areas and in difficult to access rural areas. XCIEN’s business model is to provide Gigabit internet over wireless, avoiding the cost and delay of deploying fiber to the premises. Using wireless links, installation time to its residential, business and government customers is cut from months to days.

Based in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, Virtual Technologies and Solutions (VTS) is an internet and transit provider, offering services to hundreds of ISPs, business customers and home users in and around the capital city. Founded just two years ago, the company now services over 500 subscribers and hopes to quickly scale to over 5,000 subs.

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Founded in 2013 by Bill Buchan, Marykirk.com is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) providing wireless-based Internet infrastructure for inhabitants of rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The WISP has more than 200 antenna installed over 300 square miles of very hilly, tree-covered terrain.

“I don’t know about you, but £200 for this link? Bargain.”

Businesses throughout the Southeast U.S. turn to Snappy Internet & Telecom for their experience in delivering high-bandwidth Internet access for the most demanding applications. When faced with the need for faster backhauls in a heavily congested environment, Snappy turned to Mimosa.
 

Wisper ISP is a leading provider of wireless Internet and VoIP services, serving more than 8,000 business and residential customers in the Great- er St. Louis and Southern Illinois areas. Named one of the “Top 20 Small Businesses in St. Louis” by Small Business Monthly, 2014, Wisper prides itself on its superb 96% customer satisfaction rating.
 

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Siouxland Wireless was established in 2005 and began as a web hosting, software development and technology services company. A new Siouxland Wireless was created in 2013 with Lew Weinberg as President, Mark Lehr as General Manager and Tristan Irwin as the IT Engineer forming a partnership. Over the years, Siouxland has deployed many different types of wireless gear including equipment from Redline, Alvarion, Purewave, Motorola, SAF and Cambium.

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ChargePoint is the world’s largest and most open electric vehicle (EV) charging network. With over 22,100 locations, business is booming for ChargePoint. As their business expands, so too does their workforce.

“Previous to the Mimosa product, we were getting around 100 Mbps from the local carrier. When we realized we had LOS between the two buildings, we contacted Mimosa immediately.”

Not surprisingly ChargePoint found themselves in need of more bandwidth and fast. This is where Mimosa entered the picture.

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With a population of about 2,700, Getaria is a picturesque coastal town located in Basque Country in the North of Spain, midway between Bilbao and Pamplona. The town is famous for explorers, white wine and high technology – in 2012, a two-man team from Getaria modeled a 3D representation of their hometown and won Google’s “Model Your Town” competition.

Specializing in rural broadband in the United Kingdom, Village Networks delivers point-to-point wireless connections to customers in Buckinghamshire. With over 700 customers and experiencing rapid customer growth, the rural provider needed to upgrade their network to handle the ever-increasing demands. Village Networks decided to upgrade the 100 Mbps broadband line supplying their existing network with a 200 Mbps fibre service, necessitating an equipment upgrade for the wireless link that they manage. The company chose the Mimosa B5 backhaul radios for the new link.