WiMax Ready for Prime Time -- Almost

CNN.com, 29 Aug 2005 On a stormy day at an Argentine agricultural school, Maria del Carmen Villar stood in front of a camera that streamed her image over the Internet to a conference here -- more than 6,500 miles away. Such an event is hardly unusual in this era of broadband and webcams, but it was a milestone for the Instituto Agropecuario de Monte, a rural school that until recently had only slow dial-up connections that were bogged down by text, let alone video. The school in San Miguel del Monte, 90 miles outside Buenos Aires, is one of the first test sites for a wireless broadband technology called WiMax. Now, the school's 250 students use the Internet for research in classrooms and in the fields. They've even collaborated online with schools as far away as Paris. Read more