Urumqi to build citywide free Wi-Fi network

[grey boy 2]

Urumqi to build citywide free Wi-Fi network
(Chinadaily.com.cn) 14:00, December 15, 2016

People in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, are expected to use citywide free Wi-Fi in 2018 as the city launches an ambitious plan to cover the area with a free Wi-Fi network.

The Urumqi government would cooperate with China Telecom Corp in the three-year-long project with the latter undertaking the larger share of the 100 million yuan ($14.42 million) investment.

New Wi-Fi hotspots would be implanted into the city's existing wide-range telecom network, including 3G and 4G base stations and video surveillance system.

The construction work of operation and management platform for the "wireless city" project is already completed.

Wi-Fi network will soon be built in major government agencies, commercial districts and transportation hubs.

In 2017, the project would focus on the expansion of Wi-Fi network in universities, office buildings and hotels in the city.

And in 2018, the network would extend to industry parks and major roads in the city.
http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1215/c90000-9155362.html

 

[AndrewJin]

Great, more cities in Western China are joining!

As the biggest city in Central Asia, Urumqi is rapidly developing at an unprecedented speed.

 

[TaiShang]

Great, more cities in Western China are joining!

As the biggest city in Central Asia, Urumqi is rapidly developing at an unprecedented speed.

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Wow, Xinjiang Province's Urumuqi already looks much better than many major cities in Central Asia.

 

[beijingwalker]

A city backdropped by snow mountains

 

[T-123456]

So,is this common in China,free wifi?

 

[beijingwalker]

So,is this common in China,free wifi?

Not for the whole city, at least not in Beijing

 

[T-123456]

Not for the whole city, at least not in Beijing

Why in Urumqi then(whole city)?

 

[beijingwalker]

CENTRAL ASIA’S MOST IMPORTANT CITY IS … NOT IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Alexandros Petersen

Central Asia’s beating heart, the commercial hub of the region that cultivated the old Silk Road, is neither of the fabled Thousand and One Nights cities of Samarkand or Bukhara. In fact, the center of this region is not even really in Central Asia. It’s in China.

Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, the autonomous region that together with Tibet makes up China’s western edge, is a bubbling, gritty metropolis, and probably the most cosmopolitan place between Shanghai and Istanbul.
http://chinaincentralasia.com/2013/07/15/central-asias-most-important-city-is-not-in-central-asia/
http://chinaincentralasia.com/2013/07/15/central-asias-most-important-city-is-not-in-central-asia/

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Why in Urumqi then(whole city)?

I also want to know why my city has no whole Wi-Fi.
Why Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xian, Wuhan, Changsha...No whole Wi-Fi？
So, need to wonder why Urumqi?

 

[beijingwalker]

Don't know, or maybe China is doing that from bottom up way in the Chinese cities.

 

[AndrewJin]

I also want to know why my city has no whole Wi-Fi.
Why Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xian, Wuhan, Changsha...No whole Wi-Fi？
So, need to wonder why Urumqi?

They have wifi hot spots covering nearly all the important public areas.

Why in Urumqi then(whole city)?

Big cities have wifi hot spots, quite impossible to cover all the residential areas but public areas all have wifi.

 

[Place Of Space]

I also want to know why my city has no whole Wi-Fi.
Why Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xian, Wuhan, Changsha...No whole Wi-Fi？
So, need to wonder why Urumqi?

I don't expect public wifi too much. You know, it shows wifi signal in a lots of places while the speed sucks.

 

[AndrewJin]