Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Accel began building a high-speed wireless data network in 2005 for businesses that require fast, managed, secure and reliable communication services.  Accel has the broadest network coverage of any broadband service provider today.

Drawing on its past experience in fixed wireless networking, Accel fused its proprietary technology and intellectual property with the 3G GSM and CDMA networks and created the first nationwide high-speed fixed wireless enterprise network.  Accelerator™ brings together the availability, reliability, network management and security of terrestrial frame relay with the data throughput and price point of DSL. With its dedicated connections into four of the major cellular networks Accel offers customers a private, end-to-end, fully redundant network, and can also provide service in an ISP model.  

With data rates and pricing comparable to land-based broadband, Accel’s customers benefit from the significant advantages of fixed wireless networks that include cashless payment authorizations averaging 3 seconds, a single quality of service (QoS) provider, typical lead time to install of 3 days (versus 3 to 6 weeks for frame relay or DSL), less than one hour of actual installation time and a coverage footprint that serves virtually 100% of customers’ locations.

The Company is certified by VISA as being compliant with PCI Standards for data security, which is a requirement in order to transmit payment authorization traffic.  

Accel’s managed network features and deep experience in RF and POS technology has enabled the company to take an otherwise unsuitable medium and optimize it for mission critical applications.  Unlike land-based DSL, the combination of the four largest cellular networks covers over 99% of the US population.  With the systems and processes developed by Accel, the solution is quick and easy to deploy and enables Accel to offer customers three- nine (99.9%) availability and comprehensive network management.

Accel blazed a number of trails in its development effort to provision and support Accelerator, a mission-critical fixed wireless network solution.  The Company’s ability to create this solution is the result of a unique confluence of management’s expertise in fixed wireless network operations, the cashless payment processing industry and mission-critical data networks