Wednesday, July 09, 2008

The Wireless broadband service for Beijing Olympics

7/9/2008, There will be free wireless broadband network services for travelers in Beijing before the end of the Beijing Olympic games. You can go to this website http://www.bj.wicity.cn/1/en/index.php to find the account or password, or I can just list them for you here,
 Account1:wxbj1 PW:wicity Account2:wxbj2 PW:wicity Account3:wxbj3 PW:wicity
Today, you can find such a news from:http://asia.tmcnet.com/news/2008/07/09/3537025.htm
the title of the news is "ChinaTel Group Successfully Launches Broadband Wireless Internet Access Network in Beijing for CECT-Chinacomm Communications Ltd."according to the news, The wireless network is live and provides Internet access services across approximately100 square kilometers of metropolitan Beijing, including the 2nd Ring, 3rd Ring, CBD Commercial Zone, Financial District, Zhong-Guan Village, Wangjing Economy-Technology Development Zone, Xuanwuchun Village and Yizhuang,
It is not the first time to know there will be wireless broadband service for BJ olympics, but it is first time for me to know about the company of Chinatel and Trussnet.
In this March, a local media has reported about the Beijing Wireless city project. The report basicly introduced the same content as that in today's news release.
About CECT-Chinacom, it was once very famous for its fixed wireless 3.5GHz broadband project, but because the network and service cann't compete with those big carriers, the CECT-Chinacom nealy disappeared after quite a bit of fanfare . Bbecause of its government background, it still finds its way to live through. Today, we even found it has more overseas background. I only hope the new CECT-Chinacom and the Chinatel behind them really has the ambition and capability to find opporunity for WiMAX in China.

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