About Covad Wireless

NextWeb, Inc., (d/b/a Covad Wireless) is the largest fixed wireless Internet service provider (WISP) for business operating in California, Nevada and Illinois. The company utilizes licensed and unlicensed wireless technology to bypass the local telco infrastructure to deliver cost-effective, T1-class broadband service that can be installed in days, rather than weeks.

History

Covad Wireless was founded as NextWeb, Inc. in 1999, and started operations with its first customer in 2000.

On February 21, 2006, NextWeb and Covad Communications Group, Inc. (ticker AMEX: DVW; web: www.covad.com), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, announced they had finalized an acquisition in which Covad Wireless became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covad.

Read the press release.

Markets Served

Covad Wireless provides service to over 3,500 corporate accounts in the largest metropolitan markets in California, including the San Francisco Bay area, the greater Los Angeles area, and Orange County, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada and the Chicago area. The company’s service area encompasses over 220 cities across more than 3,000 square miles and covers more than 50,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in population centers that include more than 25 million households.