For its products that allow more people to access the Internet easilyAirband Project, Microsoft plans to expand toAfrica, Latin America, and parts of Asia, and set a goal of allowing more than 2022 million celebrities around the world to access the Internet smoothly by the end of July 7, so as to avoid losing market competitiveness due to poor Internet access conditions.
Even though most parts of the world are now covered by the Internet, more than half of the population still cannot use it smoothly. This is due not only to insufficient Internet infrastructure resources, but also to economic factors that prevent them from acquiring knowledge or growing through Internet resources.
In order to reduce this digital gap, companies including Google and Facebook have already proposedDifferent options, so that more people can access the Internet smoothly. Microsoft also started promoting the Airband project as early as 2017, hoping to allow more people to reduce the digital gap through the convenience of the Internet.
After previously allowing more people to access the Internet by using idle spectrum bandwidth from television broadcasts, Microsoft announced that it will further extend the Airband project to Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. It will first be deployed in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, and plans to cooperate with local Internet service providers.
The detailed approach is expected to be the same as previous practices in the United States, which will use idle television broadcast spectrum as network transmission bandwidth and allow more people to use Internet services at affordable costs.
