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Milton Keynes looks set to become the first British town to get a high-speed wireless network based on so-called Wimax technology.
Net connection firm Pipex is to trial a network in the town, which should be up and running by the end of 2006.
Unlike wi-fi technology, Wimax offers high-speed net access over long distances, instead of just a few metres.
Pipex said it hoped to have Wimax deployed in eight UK towns by 2008.



Wimax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) gives users access to the net at multi-megabit speeds over areas many kilometres in size.
Pipex said the Wimax network in Milton Keynes would be used to take broadband to those in the town that could not get it.
Although a relatively new town, high-speed broadband is not widely available in Milton Keynes because its telecommunications infrastructure was built with aluminium rather than copper cables.

More details of Pipex's plans would be available in four weeks, the company told Reuters.
Wimax has been touted as a rival to the wi-fi technology that is already used in thousands of hotspots around the world. Some also see it as a threat to the high-speed data services some mobile phone firms are starting to roll out.

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