ChinaTel Group says that it has completed the installation of the first phase of a combined WiMAX and Wi-Fi network in China's Beijing. The wireless network is live and provides Internet access services across approximately100 square kilometers of metropolitan Beijing, including the 2nd Ring, 3rd Ring, CBD Commercial Zone, Financial District, Zhong-Guan Village, Wangjing Economy-Technology Development Zone, Xuanwuchun Village and Yizhuang,
ChinaTel Group acquired telecommunication engineering and construction firm Trussnet USA in May, 2008, which is a party to contracts with CECT-Chinacomm Communications, a licensed Chinese telecommunications provider, that provide for Trussnet to engineer and install a wireless Internet access network. The contracts provide for Trussnet as the exclusive contractor for the twenty-nine city China infrastructure project.
The proposed network, being constructed by the Trussnet subsidiary of ChinaTel Group, is a WiMAX and Mesh Wi-Fi network. Wireless broadband services will be provided on the 3.5 GHz radio frequency spectrum that the Chinese government has granted use to Chinacomm for its WiMAX broadband services.
Posted to the site on 9th July 2008
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