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Wi-Fi

Google plans to use high altitude balloons to bring Wi-fi to remote Africa

30 May 2013

Google is planning to develop high-speed wireless networks in sub-Saharan Africa with the help of high-altitude balloons that can transmit Wi-fi signals across hundreds of square kilometres.

2:51AM

China Mobile hit by bad Wi-fi bet

23 Apr 2013

I was a bit surprised by the latest quarterly results from cellular crybaby China Mobile, which I expected to contain abundant evidence supporting its grievances in an ongoing battle with Internet...

10:15AM

Letters to the Editor, March 11, 2013

11 Mar 2013

My Wi-fi device at home has become a standard household fixture, but Wi-fi networks outside are still unsatisfactory. Hot spots pop up in shopping malls, coffee shops, restaurants and the MTR. But...

3:16AM

HKBN fires up city Wi-fi hot spot spree

18 Jan 2013

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) plans to spend HK$200 million to expand its Wi-fi coverage across the city to 15,000 hot spots over the next 18 months.

5:27AM

Passenger Wi-fi freezes third Shenzhen Metro train in a week

9 Nov 2012

The Shenzhen Metro is facing mounting calls to resolve questions about its wireless control system, after a train came to a halt in between stations for the third time in a week.

4:10AM

Briefs, November 8, 2012

8 Nov 2012

No to Metro's call to cut subway phone Wi-fi

4:02AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

5 comments

12:54AM

Howard Winn

Way to go

2:01AM

Public Wi-fi signal may have caused Shenzhen subway train stoppage

Service on a Shenzhen subway line was halted this week, reportedly because the system had been compromised by a Wi-fi signal operating on the same frequency.

4:09AM

New Yorkers queue at banks, shops to charge phones, use Wi-fi

There was a post-hurricane run on New York banks, but the panic was to withdraw electricity, not cash. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and thousands of tourists trapped in the great Sandy...

5:03AM

China Digest, November 1, 2012

BEIJING

Car curb

4:36AM

Sky-high Wi-fi club prepares for liftoff

On-board Wi-fi plus a captive audience equals advertising revenue. It's a formula that airlines hope will turn what has always been a cost centre - their in-flight entertainment systems - into a...

11:29PM

Sky-high Wi-fi club prepares for liftoff

On-board Wi-fi plus a captive audience equals advertising revenue. It's a formula that airlines hope will turn what has always been a cost centre - their in-flight entertainment systems - into a...

11:29PM

Sky-high Wi-fi club prepares for liftoff

On-board Wi-fi plus a captive audience equals advertising revenue. It's a formula that airlines hope will turn what has always been a cost centre - their in-flight entertainment systems - into a...

11:29PM