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By Zhu Shenshen
INTERNET users will have faster, easier access to the cyber world by the end of the year when the "wireless Shanghai" program goes into full swing.
Shanghai Telecom plans to invest four billion yuan (US$519.4 million) this year to upgrade the city's information technology infrastructure, including its wireless network and its existing broadband services, Zhang Weihua, chairman of the city's biggest telecommunications carrier, said yesterday.
Under its plan, Shanghai Telecom will build 2,000 wireless access points in public areas and provide Wi-Fi services in 100 office buildings and hotels, mainly in Xuhui, Jiading and Pudong districts.
Shanghai Telecom has already established a wireless network in Jiading that provides Wi-Fi services to the area, including the Shanghai International Circuit.
"The Jiading network is just a trial, and we plan to build a similar network in the World Expo area," Liu Jian, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission, told Shanghai Daily. "We might launch a citywide wireless network depending on feedback from the trial."
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