The Establishment of MRT Public Wireless Broadband Network
In response to the development of the information society and international trend toward digital communication, Taipei City Government began to develop actively a wireless broadband network in February, 2004. Considering the high ridership counts, population density and many business areas along Taipei MRT routes, the Taipei MRT stations were included in the wireless broadband construction scope.
The wireless broadband network within Taipei MRT stations has already been implemented. It provides Internet services such as email, web browsing, and file download. The Internet services utilize Wi-Fi network technology and were implemented in 2 parts:
(1) Taipei Free Public Wi-Fi
"Taipei Free": The service freely allows the public to access messages, browse
websites, upload and download files, or phone over internet when they are out
and about. For more information about "Taipei Free", please refer to the service website at www.tpe-free.taipei.gov.tw
(2) Taipei public wireless LAN "WiFly": An Internet service based on user payment, provides not only the afore-mentioned Internet services but also high network usage including multimedia streaming. For more information about WiFly please refer to service website at www.wifly.com.tw
To provide a convenient and steady operation platform,
Taipei Metro set up tables for passengers to operate laptop or PDA at wireless broadband hot spots in MRT stations.
