Two months after announcing the advent of its fixed wireless Internet service in the Wilmington area, CloudWyze officials said Thursday that the towers providing the service are up and operational.
 
The new towers initially cover the eastern section of the city’s business districts, according to the company’s news release. The coverage area includes businesses as far south as around the Mayfair, Landfall and Lumina Station areas and as far north as the Northchase Business Park near Laney High School, officials said.

The company stated it also has established fixed wireless in certain business-dense areas, such as downtown. Other regions are expected to be offered the service over the course of the next two years, the release stated.
 
The towers enable CloudWyze Internet to deploy a fixed wireless system to deliver broadband to businesses, eliminating the need to dig and lay new cables, according to the release.
 
“This approach connects two fixed locations, whether that is from building to building or tower to tower, with a wireless link that sends Internet signals from one point to many other points. The signal is then sent directly to the subscriber business,” the release stated, adding that the service CloudWyze now offers was designed specifically for smaller cities like Wilmington, which may have areas in which high-speed Internet service is not reliably available.
 
“Now that our towers are live, Wilmington has its answer to the fiber announcements that big cities are experiencing,” Shaun Olsen, CloudWyze founder and CEO, said in the release.
 
CloudWyze also announced earlier this week that it will move from its current offices in Leland to space in downtown Wilmington's Murchison Building.