JAB Wireless (d/b/a Rise Broadband)

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JAB Wireless, Inc. (d/b/a Rise Broadband) — also marketed more recently as Rise Internet — is a private US broadband provider headquartered at 61 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, Colorado. It was founded in 2005 (parent JAB Broadband incorporated that year; JAB Wireless, Inc. established 2006). Ownership has been private-equity controlled: ABRY Partners and Hercules Capital were early investors, and GI Partners acquired the company in February 2023. It is not publicly traded and files no 10-K. Third-party databases give conflicting size estimates — roughly 500–1,000 employees and revenue in the $100M–$250M range (Zippia estimates ~$190M); no audited figure is public.

Operations. Rise Broadband is one of the largest US fixed wireless internet service providers, selling high-speed internet (fixed wireless and, increasingly, fiber-to-the-home, roughly 3 Mbps to 1 Gbps) and digital voice/phone service to residential, small-business, enterprise, and public-sector customers in rural and suburban areas across about 16 states in the Midwest, Rocky Mountain, and Southwest regions. It has reported serving nearly 200,000 residential and business accounts, and also resold DIRECTV. It is an aggregation of regional ISPs acquired over time, including SkyBeam, Digis, T6 Broadband, Prairie iNet, and Rhino Communications/AirCanopy.

Patent-litigation posture. An operating company defending, not asserting. In the tracked data it appears in 1 case as defendant and 0 as plaintiff. That asymmetry — no offensive filings — is consistent with a service provider being targeted rather than a patent monetization entity.

Notable case. CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Skybeam Acquisition Corp. et al., No. 6:21-cv-00368 (W.D. Tex., Judge Alan Albright), filed April 15, 2021, named JAB Wireless, Inc., Skybeam Acquisition Corp., and Skybeam, LLC, all d/b/a Rise Broadband, as defendants. Plaintiff CommWorks Solutions is characterized by Unified Patents as an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC; the asserted patents concern multi-layered internet communication systems and quality-of-service/priority handling, a networking focus matching Rise's ISP operations. The parties stipulated to dismissal in June 2021 and the court granted it in July 2021. Unified Patents separately challenged related CommWorks patent US 6,832,249 via ex parte reexamination; CommWorks also sued Comcast, RCN, Mediacom, Cable One, and Consolidated Communications. W.D. Tex. is a favored venue for NPE plaintiffs.