Category: Rural Innovation
Lightwire’s Solar Extension Solution
The bright sparks at Lightwire have harnessed the power of the sun and are busy installing Solar Extension sites to keep rural communities connected where nothing else will. Here’s where our research and development team really comes into its own. A Lightwire Rural Broadband Solar Extension pro...
On-Farm vs Coverage Extensions… what’s the difference?
Rural broadband, we do a lot of great things with it here at Lightwire. By erecting broadband sites in remote areas of the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, we connect communities and enable businesses to operate effectively. One of the ways we do this is by on-farm extensions, coverage extensions and sola...
Innovating smarter rural broadband infrastructure
Lightwire is building smarter broadband infrastructure for the Waikato and Bay of Plenty so rural folk can enjoy great internet speeds and reliability. This year, the Lightwire Rural Team is focusing on innovating a custom-built operating system, upgrading the network to Ubiquiti® AC hardware an...
Site upgrades and new technologies improve internet speeds
We have been working hard on exciting new initiatives to continuously improve the performance of our rural network and provide internet connectivity that exceeds customer expectations. These initiatives fall into two main groups: (1) upgrading and/or optimising the performance of sites, and (2) d...