It plans to utilize a so-called WiMax system, using television channels that the Federal Communications Commission allocated for educational purposes.  James Davis, MPS director of technology, said he sees WiMax as the means to provide Internet access to students from families too poor to afford a phone line.

The channels have been used to broadcast educational programs into classrooms in a one-way exchange of information, but the WiMax system would provide for a two-way exchange of data.