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Wifi hotspots have become an integral part of college life, providing students a way to connect to the internet all over campus without being tethered to an ethernet jack. One of the first adopters of campus-wide WiFi was Northern Michigan University, and recently NMU announced that they are now going to be providing wireless 4G WiMAX across the whole campus! The network will have a radius of about 30 miles, covering the campus and the surrounding town of Marquette on the northern shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. NMU has also agreed to make the network available to local schools and municipal offices with proper licensing. Motorola provided the infrastructure for the WiMAX network and will provide USBw 100 WiMAX adapters to thousands of students; 3,000 of the school's 9,000 students will receive WiMAX enabled Lenovo ThinkPad WiMAX enabled laptops as part of their tuition. NMU becomes the first US university to deploy a WiMAX network built on Motorola technology - let's hope they make it a trend!