WiMax and a satellite connection are bringing broadband Internet access to a remote Vietnamese village, part of a collaboration between the public and private sector to narrow the digital divide in rural Vietnam.Ta Van, a small village located in Vietnam’s northern Lao Cai province, has a wireless network that uses Wi-Fi and WiMax, a wide-area networking technology that offers high bandwidth. This wireless network is connected to the Internet over a link to Shin Corp.’s IPSTAR satellite that offers 2M bits per second (bps) of bandwidth on the downlink connection and a 512K bps uplink.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/21/Vietnamese-village-gets-Internet-access-via-WiMax_1.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092100489.html