The garden of England, Kent, is to see the installation of UK's first WiMax network.
Trials will begin in January 2005 with a commercial launch of business and residential customers expected before the middle of the year.
Networking company Telabria is building the WiMax backhaul, intended to support its Wi-Fi hot spots, based on the 802.16 standard. Once the network is live, it will replace the satellite backhaul the company has set up to supply broadband to rural customers.
Jim Baker, Telabria's CEO, said WiMax "will fundamentally change the structure of broadband networks" in the next few years and described it as "a revolutionary standard".