US$1.5 million for wireless facilities in Hanoi, HCM City
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This is a project called Wifi City, in which the investor aims to create a community which is big enough to create sources of income for Internet and mobile phone based value added services.
In the Wifi City, people can freely and make Internet connections at any place, in their houses or on the streets, by laptops or mobile phones.
However, that is in the future. At present, to use Wifi service, users have to come to places which have wireless Internet stations. Hanoi currently has 2,200 sites and HCM City 2,800 sites, mainly at universities, bookstores, cafes, restaurants, banks, and securities trading floors. In ideal conditions, a station can operate within 100m and can serve 20 users at the same time.
From now to the year’s end, FPT Telecom will build an additional 3,000 wireless facilities at public sites where it expects to have many people use wireless Internet service.
Everything will be free of charge, from installation fees to equipment, subscription fees to using fees, etc. Both the owner of the site and Internet users don’t have to pay anything. Many people question how will FPT Telecom benefit from this project?
Spending $1.5 million in building infrastructure for Wifi cities will benefit the investor in the long-run. Creating free Internet connection sites will encourage users to exploit this free-of-charge source. This is the opportunity for the providers of modern mobile phones which have web service, for example Nokia mobile phones, a major partner of FPT Telecom in the Wifi City project.
Not only does FPT Telecom want to build the foundation for a city of technology where everybody can make a wireless Internet connection anywhere, any time but some others also plan to test the Wimax (World Interoperability for Microwave Access) system.
Compared to Wifi, a Wimax station can serve Internet users within a diameter of several kilometers. However, this system can classify its clients while everybody is equal for Wifi.
(Source: SGTT |
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