Our Mission
At Metro Service Center, our mission is to accelerate the deployment of reliable, affordable internet access and close the digital divide sooner than previously thought possible.
Through fast deployment and unparalleled performance, our next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform enables us to efficiently deliver high-speed broadband service to underserved and hard-to-reach communities all over the world.
Through fast deployment and unparalleled performance, our next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform enables us to efficiently deliver high-speed broadband service to underserved and hard-to-reach communities all over the world.
The Challenges
Most of the world still has inadequate access to fast, affordable broadband service — a discrepancy known as the digital divide.
The digital divide persists today — even in many developed economies, including the US — because each tool in the current broadband access toolbox has attributes that limit their utility and scope:
- Fiber delivers great speeds but is often prohibitively costly and slow to deploy.
- Mobile networks serve smartphones well but rarely have the capacity to support many active households, which each consume ~50x more traffic than a single smartphone user.
- Traditional fixed wireless access (FWA) networks based on indoor Wi-Fi tech are easy to deploy, but are severely limited by obstructions and unlicensed interference at scale.
- LEO satellite networks are excellent for remote locations without infrastructure, but will not have (even when fully deployed) enough capacity to serve mainstream markets.
The Solution
Fiber is preferred for closing the digital divide, but in many cases its implementation is too slow and costly to show timely returns on either public or private investment.
Prior wireless options have not solved this problem in mainstream markets.
This ngFWA: Next Generation Fixed Wireless Access wireless alternative is a long-term substitute, delivering fiber-class performance at a small fraction of the cost and deployment time of fiber.
Prior wireless options have not solved this problem in mainstream markets.
This ngFWA: Next Generation Fixed Wireless Access wireless alternative is a long-term substitute, delivering fiber-class performance at a small fraction of the cost and deployment time of fiber.
ngFWA is an entirely new technology built from the ground up to deliver reliable residential broadband. Overcoming multiple long-battled industry challenges, ngFWA provides affordable, fiber-class service with the deployment ease and scalability of wireless technology.
This is an entirely new wireless broadband technology. The next generation of fixed wireless access is here. ngFWA —
ngFWA overcomes previously insurmountable technology challenges such as radio interference cancellation and reliable connectivity despite physical obstructions, like buildings or trees, amid the wireless link.
For the first time in the broadband industry, ngFWA delivers a truly unique combination of reliable, fiber-class connectivity with the deployment ease and scalability of wireless technology. Our platform is the world’s first instance of ngFWA.
ngFWA overcomes previously insurmountable technology challenges such as radio interference cancellation and reliable connectivity despite physical obstructions, like buildings or trees, amid the wireless link.
For the first time in the broadband industry, ngFWA delivers a truly unique combination of reliable, fiber-class connectivity with the deployment ease and scalability of wireless technology. Our platform is the world’s first instance of ngFWA.
The Problem We're Addressing
The Problem We’re Addressing Fast broadband connectivity is no longer a matter of just entertainment and convenience, it’s an absolute necessity for multiple aspects of our lives — work, education, healthcare, and social survival.
Those who have no affordable high-speed broadband options are being left further and further behind. And there are still hundreds of millions of households in that unfortunate position today, in both developed and developing economies. ITU data and reliable, unprioritized speed test statistics indicate a little over ~40% of the world’s 2.3 billion households still have no fixed broadband, and 2/3 of those who do have speeds under 100 Mbps.
Given the scope, scale, and urgency of this problem, broadband service providers need a better network toolbox that gives them the ability to deploy new or upgrade existing infrastructure to achieve both high capacity and long reach, on much shorter timelines, with viable network costs across a wide range of neighborhood conditions.
Optical fiber networks are the preferred tool for highhousehold-density markets, delivering an attractive combination of high capacity and low latency. However, last-mile fiber deployment involves long timelines and high deployment complexity and costs per subscriber in the medium- and low-density markets that include most households. Given that, pursuit of faster progress on the divide leads to consideration of the relative ease of wireless network deployment.
Unfortunately, wireless options have not shown the ability to scale broadly in fixed access. Mobile networks (4G/5G) require expensive licensed spectrum better used for higher-margin mobile services, limiting availability for fixed, and when actually used for fixed service have typically highly varied quality and poor operator economics. Legacy fixed wireless access (FWA) networks based on re-purposed indoor wireless technology (Wi-Fi) struggle with both interference from within their own and other networks as well as their inability to work around physical obstructions like other houses and trees that are common in residential neighborhoods. Finally, while satellite broadband networks are uniquely suited to reaching very remote areas and oceans, they will have nowhere near enough capacity to serve mainstream residential markets at scale, given their necessarily wide distribution around a globe that is 71% covered by water and their limited bandwidth per satellite.
Certainly all of these wireless technologies have been contributing to closing the broadband gap, but mostly at the margins of the problem. The central question remains: how can Metro Service Center deliver 100s of Mbps cost-effectively to broad populations, and much sooner rather than later?
Those who have no affordable high-speed broadband options are being left further and further behind. And there are still hundreds of millions of households in that unfortunate position today, in both developed and developing economies. ITU data and reliable, unprioritized speed test statistics indicate a little over ~40% of the world’s 2.3 billion households still have no fixed broadband, and 2/3 of those who do have speeds under 100 Mbps.
Given the scope, scale, and urgency of this problem, broadband service providers need a better network toolbox that gives them the ability to deploy new or upgrade existing infrastructure to achieve both high capacity and long reach, on much shorter timelines, with viable network costs across a wide range of neighborhood conditions.
Optical fiber networks are the preferred tool for highhousehold-density markets, delivering an attractive combination of high capacity and low latency. However, last-mile fiber deployment involves long timelines and high deployment complexity and costs per subscriber in the medium- and low-density markets that include most households. Given that, pursuit of faster progress on the divide leads to consideration of the relative ease of wireless network deployment.
Unfortunately, wireless options have not shown the ability to scale broadly in fixed access. Mobile networks (4G/5G) require expensive licensed spectrum better used for higher-margin mobile services, limiting availability for fixed, and when actually used for fixed service have typically highly varied quality and poor operator economics. Legacy fixed wireless access (FWA) networks based on re-purposed indoor wireless technology (Wi-Fi) struggle with both interference from within their own and other networks as well as their inability to work around physical obstructions like other houses and trees that are common in residential neighborhoods. Finally, while satellite broadband networks are uniquely suited to reaching very remote areas and oceans, they will have nowhere near enough capacity to serve mainstream residential markets at scale, given their necessarily wide distribution around a globe that is 71% covered by water and their limited bandwidth per satellite.
Certainly all of these wireless technologies have been contributing to closing the broadband gap, but mostly at the margins of the problem. The central question remains: how can Metro Service Center deliver 100s of Mbps cost-effectively to broad populations, and much sooner rather than later?