A technology company is making it so customers can go anywhere in the city of Carrollton and have wireless access to the Internet on their laptops, iPods and smartphones, and soon, the network will likely expand to Villa Rica as well.

David Nist, owner of the Carrollton-based Nistworks, announced this week that the Carrollton network is now online, though the signal is not yet available to every area of the city. The network will grow in the coming days as more and more residents sign on, and it should be made available citywide within the next month and a half when Nistworks receives a major circuit to distribute the signal.

Nist said that in the coming weeks, as the customer base grows, the company will establish increasing numbers of local hubs, ensuring that the service is consistently available and that it provides the Internet at speeds exceeding traditional DSL. According to Nist, the service will offer speeds up to 108 megabits, which is effectively 36 times faster than DSL.

Nistworks has already succeeded in running the service to Tallapoosa, where customers can pay $20 per household per month to have access to the Internet citywide. In exchange for providing the service, the city will allow the company to place its antennae in different locations on the city’s right of way as customers sign up for the service. The city is also providing a sign-up process to make it easy for residents to acquire the service if they wish.

The system in Carrollton will work slightly differently than that in Tallapoosa, as the majority of transmitters will be in individual residences, Nist said. When people sign up for the service, comi ng at a monthly cost of $24.95, they’ll receive a small radio box that attaches by suction cup to one of their windows. This box will transmit wireless signals several hundred feet, allowing them Internet access all over their home made possible through that box. When they leave their home, though, other transmitters will take over, and at the library or the coffee shop or anywhere else around town they’ll still be able to maintain Internet access.

Once the service catches on, Nist said, the company will expand the service to Villa Rica, and ultimately the plan is to provide service anywhere between the two cities as well, though any kind of time frame on this is contingent upon how popular the service becomes.

Nist said people are clamoring for wireless service, and if his company did not act fast it could possibly lose the race to provide such a service to larger providers like Clearwire.

“If we had waited until it becomes political, we were going to lose because Clear would be here, and if not Clear, it would be somebody else,” he said.

Now, it will be up to his company to meet the growing demand for the service, and the demand is definitely there, he said.

“The demand far outweighs our ability to deliver,” he said. “So the ball is really in our court now.”