Energy Broadband Inc., the oil and gas subsidiary of ERF Wireless (News - Alert), added more than 25,000 square miles of wireless broadband coverage in Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma via a strategic agreement between ERF Wireless and Skybeam. This broadband coverage was added for the delivery of digital oil field solutions.

ERF Wireless is a provider of enterprise-class wireless broadband products and services. In order to deliver wholesale Internet and bandwidth services to Energy Broadband Inc., the company inked a master services agreement with Skybeam Inc.

According to a press release, Energy Broadband will utilize the new enhanced wireless broadband coverage to deliver digital oil field solutions to oil and gas companies under existing contracts, as well as to other oil and gas companies active in areas such as Colorado's Piceance Creek and Denver Basin, Texas' Barnett Shale, and locations near Oklahoma's Anadarko and Arkoma Basins.

H. Dean Cubley, CEO of ERF Wireless, said in a press release that the latest agreement with Skybeam marks the fifth in a series of agreements with quality wireless network providers throughout major oil and gas regions of North America.

Cubley added, “This approach, when combined with our continued construction of quality wireless broadband networks, allows the company to rapidly expand its wireless coverage area in strategic locations required to have Energy Broadband service to meet the needs of the company's growing oil and gas customer base."

In a statement, Jeff Kohler (News - Alert), co-founder and chief development officer of JAB Broadband, "JAB Broadband and its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Skybeam Inc. and Digis LLC, have built extensive quality networks and operations over the past five years and are currently servicing more than 90,000 customers off some 750 towers that provide more than 25,000 square miles of wireless broadband coverage."

ERF Wireless has been offering communications service, equipment and infrastructure to a number of oil, gas and related energy sector companies throughout North America. These service offerings have been especially concentrated throughout western Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma for the past two years, say officials with the company.

John Nagel, CEO of Energy Broadband. Nagel, said in a statement, "Through our strategic relationship with Skybeam, our ability to fulfill requests for broadband service to drilling and production operations in key areas such as the Piceance Creek Basin in western Colorado has been greatly accelerated."