Nottingham is to become a WiMax city in a project led by Nottingham Trent University according to a recent report.

According to recent report Nottingham Trent university is leading the way to help the city of Nottingham to rollout the implementation of WiMax broadband, which can be used by students as well as community organisations and businesses in the area. It is hoped that the WiMax Forest, as it has become known, will be switched on from the end of October.

Equipment designed to receive the signal will be switched on over the next twelve months according to recent reports. The long range wireless broadband network will be accessible by students as well as business people and community groups, according to recent reports. A number of organisations have decided to invest in the project following a proposal from the university’s Strategic Partnership group.

An official from Nottingham Trent University said: “WiMax in a way is a technology which is additional to what’s already there and can fill in certain gaps and do certain things which the normal – either fibre or wireless – provision can’t do and Intel wanted to see how people could exploit those opportunities.”

He also added: “The long term plan is that it becomes a network which is owned in some way by the community.” Officials have confrimd that there are already some places that are looking into the implementation of WiMax including Milton Keynes amd Warwick. Part of the trial is designed to determine what the impact of buildings and landscapes on WiMax distribution will be.

Intel is amongst the firms that will be investing the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to get the scheme going, according to recent reports. Also involved in the initiative are East Midlands New Technology Initiative Network and Accelerate Nottingham.