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OnWeb90 surveys Beaver Island sites for proposed wireless broadband service, 2007

Also OnWeb90 Beaver Island broadband survey January 2007

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TypeEvent
Dates2007-01-06 – 2007-01-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
2007-01-06 – 2007-01-07
Kind
Announcement
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communicationtechnologyinfrastructuretechnologycommerce
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

OnWeb90 returned to Beaver Island on January 6–7, 2007, to survey both dense clusters and remote homes for a proposed wireless broadband network. The company described 2.4 GHz and 900 MHz non-line-of-sight equipment and said service could begin within one to two months if tower space was secured.

Evidence limits

The article records a survey and provisional prices and speeds, not completed deployment, coverage, or a final service contract.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, February 2007, "Broadband Wireless Projects Starting."
    Reports Nick Welsheimer, Tim King, and a tower climber surveying Island locations, evaluating a backhaul tower, and proposing 2.4 GHz and 900 MHz NLOS service with a one-to-two-month start target if tower space could be secured. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2007-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the broadband survey and advertised plans.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2007-02_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “OnWeb90 surveys Beaver Island sites for proposed wireless broadband service, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-onweb90-broadband-survey-2007/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2007, "Broadband Wireless Projects Starting." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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