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June 21, 2007

Wee-Fi: Hong Kong Transit-Fi; Las Vegas-Fi; Chicago Bus-Fi

By Glenn Fleishman

Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong will add Wi-Fi: The service handles 2.4m passengers daily, and will initially have Wi-Fi in the waiting and boarding areas, according to its equipment vendor Colubris. All 51 stations will be equipped this year, with on-board access and video surveillance coming later.

Las Vegas approves access for metro-scale Wi-Fi firms: Two companies in Las Vegas received permission to use “utility poles, traffic signals, and school flasher poles” yesterday, according tot he Las Vegas Review-Journal. Cheetah Wireless and ExteNet Systems will build the system at their own expense. Las Vegas is tricky, because visitors are extremely likely to want to use such a network, but most likely to want to use it in a hotel room. As I am quoted in the article, hotel Wi-Fi networks could overpower a metro-scale network.

Chicago police will get Wi-Fi-enabled view into city buses: The video surveillance won’t rely on a citywide network, but will allow nearby cruisers to gain access; the system can also piggyback on Wi-Fi hot spots in the vicinity. The Chicago Transit Authority already has 75 rail stations hooked up as hot spots with remote video surveillance.

Posted by Glennf at June 21, 2007 9:55 AM

Categories: Wee-Fi

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