Taara and T-Mobile
Crowded festivals often draw hundreds of thousands of people to remote areas that struggle to provide adequate cell phone service.
Taara worked with T-Mobile at two major events in the U.S. to provide 5G broadband connectivity using Taara’s wireless optical solution that was quick and easy to install.
The influx of people at festivals and other crowded events often leads to overloaded cell networks, making it difficult to secure a reliable connection if high bandwidth backhaul connectivity is not available. The team at Taara, X’s moonshot for connectivity, wanted to alleviate this problem.
“We've all been there – stuck in a crowd at a concert, a baseball game or other large-scale events, struggling to share a video clip or connect with friends because the cell network is jammed,” says Taara General Manager Mahesh Krishnaswamy. “And as people continue to consume more data, this challenge will only become more prevalent unless high capacity backhaul networks are implemented to provide a seamless end user experience.”
Taara’s mission is to deliver fast, affordable, and abundant connectivity to people wherever and whenever they need it. Taara uses beams of light to deliver high-speed, high-capacity connectivity over long distances. For the past few years, the team has been working with partners around the world, from rural India to urban Kenya to the Congo River, to pilot and refine Taara’s technology for a variety of applications.
