“We recently changed our mission statement at Microsoft to ‘empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.’”
Satya Nadella
“My dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.”
Satya Nadella
Microsoft’sAffordableAccessInitiativepartnershipwithInternetaccessprovidersandotherlocal
entrepreneurs
addressingallpotentialbarriers
AffordableAccessInitiative:20+ActiveProjects
Kenya
Philippines
Tanzania
CurrentProjectCountries(21) Namibia
Ghana
Taiwan
Indonesia
SouthAfricaBotswana
JamaicaBangalore
Virginia
ColombiaUgandaRwanda
Nigeria
Argentina
Malawi
Maine
MaharashtraAndhraPradesh
London
Pakistan
Zambia
123K-12Schoolsconnected
44400K-12studentsconnected
14UniversityCampusesConnected
140520UniversityStudentsConnected
665760+TotalpopulationunderCoverage
MicrosoftAffordableAccessInitiativeGrantFundGrantsforscalablesolutionsthatenablepeopleinunderservedcommunitiestoaccesslow-costInternetandcloudservices.
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LastYear’sWinners:• 12companies from11countriesand5continents.• Connectivity,energy,hardware,andapplications.• Focusingoneducation,healthcare,andagriculture
verticals.
Over220Applications forYearTwoGrantsSubmitted.• ThisyearwearefocusingonInternetaccess,energy
access,andIoTforagriculture.• WillannounceYearTwoWinners inMay2017.
• TVwhitespacespectrum(unusedUHF&VHFchannels)isaglobalbandandisavailabletodayonanunlicensedbasisintheU.S.,Canada,UK,SingaporeandSouthKorea.• Pre-Regulation,partnersoperatinginothercountriesundercommerciallicensesandothertypesof
authorizations(e.g.,Botswana,Kenya,Malawi,Nepal,Malaysia,etc.).
• RadiosoperatinginTVwhitespacesspectrumprovidepoint-to-multipointconnectivityof10+kilometers.• Cancomplement2.4and5GHzWi-Fi.CanalsocomplementLTE,fiberandsatellite,whereeconomicsarechallenging.
• Spectralefficiencyonparwithotherleadingwirelessaccesstechnologies(throughputof16Mbpsin8MHzUHFchannel;withASICsand2and4channelbonding/aggregationcomingin2017).
• Canreducethecostofdeployingwirelessnetworks(CAPEXandOPEX),enablingnewbusinessmodelsanddifferentiation.Equipmentischeapandeasytodeploy.AccordingtoarecentanalysisbyTechMahindra,TVWSnetworkinfrastructurecostisnomorethan40.8%thecostofLTEonaperGBdeliveredbasis.
UseofTVWhiteSpacesCanOpenUpNewOpportunities
TechnologylandscapeforWirelessLANandWAN
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BaseCase- LastMileBaseCase- In-BuildingBaseCase- IoTMediumHigh
SouthernVirginia,USA– Closingthe“Homework”GapExtendingfiberconnectionsatschoolstogetTVWS&Wi-Ficonnectionstostudentsathome
CollaborationbetweenMid-AtlanticBroadband,Adaptrum,Microsoft,andtheCommonwealthofVirginia.
DeliveringOffice365to7,500primaryandsecondaryschoolchildrenin18schools.ProvidingInternetaccesstounconnectedstudents(50%ofschoolchildrenintheseareas).
Asecondphasecouldprovideaccessto40Kmorestudentsat183K-12schoolsacrossruralSouthernVirginia.Potentialtohelp250,000unconnectedstudentsinVirginiaalone.
FirstdeploymentofwirelesstechnologyleveragingtheTVwhitespaces&Wi-Fitodeliverhigh-speedInternetaccesstoenablestudentsinruralcountiestodotheironlineassignmentswhileathome.
Jamaica- InternetAccess&O365forUnservedCommunitiesUsingTVWhiteSpaceTechnologytoConnectRuralSchools,PoliceStations&HealthcareClinics
CollaborationbetweenFLOW,Microsoft,Adaptrum,JamaicanUniversalServiceFund,andUSAID.
Extendingbroadbandconnectivitytomorethan30ruralschools,communitycenters,policestations,andhealthcareclinics,enablingaccesstocontentandcloudbasedapplicationsandservices.
ProjectenabledthroughcashgrantsfromtheUSAIDandtheJamaicanUniversalServiceFund.BuildsupontheVision2030JamaicaNationalDevelopmentPlan,whichfocusesonexpandingaffordablebroadbandintoruralcommunities.
MicrosoftprovidesOffice365softwareandservices,PartnersinLearningteachertraining,technicalandregulatorysupport.ISPdeploystheTVwhitespacenetworkandprovidesthebroadbandaccess.
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