A British city known for its concrete cows is set to become one of the most technologically advanced in Britain after it said on August 18 that it would to be the first UK town to boast a high-speed WiMax wireless broadband network.
Telecoms firm Pipex, in a joint venture with chip maker Intel, is to blanket parts of Milton Keynes with WiMax, a medium-range sibling of the popular Wi-Fi technology covering kilometres rather than metres. Both use radio frequency rather than conventional wires to beam the Internet.