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Taipei to Cloak City in World's Largest Wi-Fi Grid

Posted by michael on from the visionary dept.

gollum123 writes "Reuters reports Taipei city planners are building what they say will be the world's biggest Wi-Fi network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost everywhere in the Taiwan capital. The project will build on the network available in Hsinyi, an up-and-coming shopping and financial district that is home to the world's tallest building, the 508-meter (1,667-foot) Taipei 101, and the city government headquarters. The city-wide network will be built by Q-Ware Corp., a unit of the Uni-President group, which also holds the 7-Eleven franchise in Taiwan. Q-Ware will deploy at least 20,000 access points throughout Taipei at a cost of US$70 million. Q-ware is aiming for a basic monthly fee of T$150-T$400 (US$4.5-US$12), far less than the T$800-T$1,000 (US$24-US$30) that fixed-line broadband providers demand in Taiwan. The network will cover 90 percent of the city by the end of 2005."

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  1. Fun by MikeMacK · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The Wi-Fi access points that will link computers to the Web in Taipei will be attached to traffic and street lights, creating a network that will cover 90 percent of the city by the end of 2005.

    The hackers will have fun with that - expect car insurance premiums in Taiwan to skyrocket.

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post?

  3. TechTV Destroyed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is now completely clear that Charles Hitchhorn has every intent of destroying all TechTV programming and that they bought TechTV only for the cable/satellite contracts. The Screen Savers is destroyed.

  4. Will this set the city up for by Yhippa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pervasive pornogrpahy?

  5. Don't they know... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Captain: Engage the Wifi cloaking.

    Ensign: Yes Sir! cloak enabled!

    Captain: Haha, they'll never see our packets coming! (Ride of the Valkayries plays in the background)

    Captain: Why aren't there thingies all over the monitors! I want to see some bitches thingies on the monitor!

    Ensign: Sir, they're called boobs and secondly the ships behind a building, we'll have to raise to ludicris orbit in order to see some boobs.

    Captain: Ah, I remember when I was your age, I was on leave from the academy on Chulawn 8. I meet a girl there... well needless to say she had quite a set of thingies! I banged her like a screen door in a hurricane!

    Ensign: Didn't you also get a terrible rash that put you in the infirmary for a week?

    Captain: Um, no. Needless to say, when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. Just be leary of what plants you wipe your ass with.

    Ensign: Noted! Sir, we're unable to recieve any transmition of pornographic material because of local anti-porno laws.

    Captain (pacing back and forth): What to DO!!!

    Ensign: Sir, according to our scanners, we're hovering above a large district of brothels.

    Captain: Ah Ha! Ready the away teams! Also notify Sick bay we're going to need a good supply of phase tronic jimmy hats!

    Ensign: Yes Sir! 100 to Bang down, I mean Beam down Sir!

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  6. Enough! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This isn't news. These are fisherman stories. Every week another city makes this declaration. I say until an actual city does it, it doesnt make /.

    ok?

    otherwise, its just fluff

  7. mod Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    some of you Zhave

  8. a city that size... by enrico_suave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A city that size can't have a cloaking device!?

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