China Mobile Builds Wireless City Platform in 150 Cities

A wireless city platform is a multi-tier wireless network that provides ubiquitous access across the entire city. In advancing the construction of wireless cities, China Mobile plans to apply the most advanced mobile internet technologies to urban management and residents' daily lives, enabling residents to access ten categories of applications—including government services, public utilities, transportation, healthcare, education, employment, finance, tourism, lifestyle services, and shopping—anytime, anywhere via mobile phones and other terminals.

It is reported that China Mobile partnered with the Xiamen municipal government in 2008 to deploy Xiamen's wireless city over a 3G network, making Xiamen the first truly successful wireless city in China. Since then, China Mobile has adopted a hybrid "2G+3G+WiFi" networking approach to build "wireless cities" and "wireless city clusters" across multiple provinces and cities.

In fact, the industry has reached a consensus on the vast prospects of the wireless internet sector, and the three major telecom operators have begun implementing wireless city strategies to seize the high ground of the mobile internet industry.

Last year, China Unicom and China Telecom also launched equipment tenders for wireless city construction, and China Unicom began piloting a "wireless city" in Tai'an, Shandong Province. However, neither China Telecom nor China Unicom has disclosed the progress of their wireless city projects to date.