Great American Broadband

Our Goals

To create an integrated rural WISP that generates an annualized run rate of $21 million from a customer base of 50,000 or more rural area households within 24 months of creation, GAB will:

Acquire existing operators of unlicensed wireless broadband services in rural communities underserved by DSL and cable modem in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio and the Prairie states of Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming..

Increase the range of services available that appeal to the our rural mostly residential/SOHO market to include VoIP, video, High Definition IPTV (HD-IPTV) and mobile broadband.

Deploy a unique approach to service delivery - centralizing core business functions, purchasing and raising capital to achieve economies of scale and employing those efficiencies to enable rural WISPs to realize their full potential.

News

9/03/08

GAB acquires the WISP operations of Maplenet Wireless, Inc. The company will do business as Maplenet Broadband. Bringing the number of customers served by GAB to over 7,000.

7/10/08

GAB acquires the hosting, dial-up and WISP operations of Supernova Systems, Inc. The company will continue doing business as Only Internet.

5/30/08

GAB acquires the WISP operations of Inventive Media. The WISP operation will do business as Vistabeam.

3/20/08

The Federal Communications Commission announces that GAB was the auction winner in four states - CA, WY, NV and IN which will gives GAB the ability to deliver service to over 235,000 residents. Click here to see which licenses GAB won.

1/23/2008

GAB awarded a nationwide license in the 3650-3700 MHz band.