Residents and business in the Darlington (County Durham) region look set to benefit from wireless broadband thanks to a new partnership between Balfour Webnet Limited (BWL) and Darlington Football Club:


The deal itself will facilitate installation of a WiMax based wireless broadband network that covers the whole town. In addition subscribers will soon be able to make free mobile calls from Darlington using the same network:


BWL has also deployed wireless technology throughout the Darlington Arena and will be trialling in 2008 a host of services such as real-time betting and entertainment. It's understood that financially disadvantaged groups should also benefit from cheaper subsidised Internet access rates.

We assume that by "20mg" they really mean "20Mbps" (Megabits Per Second), although it's unclear whether this will be symmetrical (same speed both ways) or not.