This
article in USA Today looks at WiMax which “has allowed several thousand
mostly small Internet providers across the USA to cheaply deliver
broadband to remote areas via antennas on hilltops, barns and
homes.They typically feed off a fixed broadband line to a central
antenna site or base station.WiMax is expected to expand wireless
broadband to most of rural America, challenge cable-modem and DSL
broadband in big cities and eventually add roaming features that could
threaten the fast-data offerings of cell phone giants”.
Inventive wireless providers go rural [Smart Mobs]