Attention, Baltimore!

If you live in the rural communities of northern Baltimore, you're in luck: Altius Broadband has created the first 4G network in your area! Altius is using Maryland Public Television's broadcast towers to transmit WiMAX service to the towns of Owings Mills, Reisterstown, Butler and Pikesville, with a radius of 10 to 15 miles.

Though they're based in Phoenix, Altius has been providing traditional home internet service to the region for some time now and decided to roll out their WiMAX network there because of the success they've had with traditional broadband. They are anticipating a subscriber base of 400-600 users to sign up over the next 6th months.

If you don't live in northern Baltimore, there is more WiMAX on the way. Sprint/Clearwire is still promising XOHM in Baltimore and DC later this year.