Consumer Applications

Success in today's economy means being with your customers when they need you, where they need you. Today, wireless connectivity can do much more than increase productivity. Deeper connections, richer communication, and real-time access to resources and information can mean a better customer experiences—and that means better business.

Wireless Innovation for Every Consumer

The Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks (RI-WINs)—BIF's effort to make Rhode Island the first state in the country with a border-to-border, broadband wireless network—was created with one goal in mind: to spur innovation across the public and private sector.

We believe that Rhode Island is an ideal place to quickly and cost effectively test new ways of doing business. Thanks to an idea called Innovation @ Scale, innovators can take advantage of Rhode Island's manageable size, close knit networks, and densely concentrated resources to quickly and cost effectively explore business models that network resources and capabilities across traditional boundaries. Models tested and refined in Rhode Island are much better positioned to scale nationally and globally.

RI-WINs is a key ingredient in creating this environment for experimentation. Innovating around customer experience is an important part of BIF's mission and a central focus of RI-WINs objective.

We are currently working with our partners to develop new applications for exploring how RI-WINs can drive customer experience innovation.