“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

TVWSEquipmentMarket:TotaladdressableMarket

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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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