AirBand Communications

AirBand Communications, Inc. was a fixed-wireless broadband provider for business customers, founded in 2000 by Andy Lombard and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It delivered high-speed data, Voice over IP, security and managed services over a last-mile fixed-wireless network, bypassing incumbent local phone companies, and operated in metropolitan markets including Baltimore, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia and Phoenix. The company was venture-backed, raising roughly $119M across sixteen rounds from investors including Battery Ventures, M/C Partners and Crescendo Ventures, and grew by acquiring the fixed-wireless business of WindChannel Communications (2006) and Sparkplug (2010). Airband was acquired by United Network Services (UNSi) on 2013-05-15 and no longer operates independently. As of the 2026-07-19 enrichment pass its former domains (airband.com, www.airband.com, airbandcommunications.com) do not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN), and no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API artifacts of any kind could be found. This company is retained in the network as a historical/defunct record only. Not to be confused with Airband Community Internet, an unrelated UK rural broadband operator.

AirBand Communications is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Telecommunications, Broadband, Fixed Wireless, and Internet Service Provider.

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Telecommunications BroadbandFixed WirelessInternet Service Provider Voice over IP Managed Service Defunct Acquired

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Composite quality — 0.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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name: AirBand Communications
description: AirBand Communications, Inc. was a fixed-wireless broadband provider for business customers, founded in 2000
  by Andy Lombard and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It delivered high-speed data, Voice over IP, security and managed services
  over a last-mile fixed-wireless network, bypassing incumbent local phone companies, and operated in metropolitan markets
  including Baltimore, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia and Phoenix. The company was venture-backed, raising roughly
  $119M across sixteen rounds from investors including Battery Ventures, M/C Partners and Crescendo Ventures, and grew by
  acquiring the fixed-wireless business of WindChannel Communications (2006) and Sparkplug (2010). Airband was acquired by
  United Network Services (UNSi) on 2013-05-15 and no longer operates independently. As of the 2026-07-19 enrichment pass
  its former domains (airband.com, www.airband.com, airbandcommunications.com) do not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN), and no developer
  portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API artifacts of any kind could be found. This company is retained in the
  network as a historical/defunct record only. Not to be confused with Airband Community Internet, an unrelated UK rural broadband
  operator.
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