...The free Wi-Fi coverage is a pilot project conducted with China Mobile, Beijing Youth Daily reported, and subscribers of the cell phone network will get 20 hours of free Wi-Fi a month.
Commuters on the routes obtain Internet access after inputting their phone number. A user name and password is then sent to their phone in a text message.
A 3 yuan (50 cents) hourly fee will be charged once the subscriber has exceeded the 20 hours of free service.
The pilot project will continue through the end of June. Whether China Mobile plans to extend the project is unclear. Company representatives could not be reached by China Daily for comment on Tuesday.
Despite the free service, some commuters complained about the speed and reliability of the network.
Bai Long, a 26-year-old accountant in Beijing, tested the Internet speed on Monday with his phone and said it was only 80 kb/s.
"With Internet speed this poor, you can only browse some web pages, and viewing a video clip is out of the question," he said.
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Other residents complained of similar problems.
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As part of the wireless local area networks construction project targeting more than 60 percent of the capital in the next five years, 90,000 WLAN access points will be built, according to the Beijing Commission of Economy and Information Technology....
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