Ball State to Test New Wireless Technology

Does a faster and wider-ranging wireless technology, called WiMax, have the potential to supplant current wireless systems on campuses?

Ball State University hopes to find out.

The institution, in Muncie, Ind., has been granted an experimental, six-month license by the Federal Communications Commission to test WiMax technology.

H. O'Neal Smitherman, vice president for information technology, said that if WiMax fulfills its promise, the university might need no more than

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