internet - Shanghai goes wifi

Focus has been on the ongoing crackdown of blog hosting services, but the big story is how fast the integration of the internet goes. On a personal level: this week I will go also in China wifi. China Telecom has carefully hidden its offer to allow wireless access for as much as 10 fen per minute, that is 6 Renminbi (US$ 0.7) for its local citizens.
Rumors says that Beijing is even moving much fast than Shanghai. Several lists with hotspots are going around, but they might be rather outdated. My experts expect that in six months time half of Shanghai will have wireless access.
China has surpassed Japan as the number 1 DSL-subscriber base with 19.15 million subscribers at the end of 2003, five times the number at the end of 2002, says the Shanghai Daily. China has double the number of DSL-users in the United States.
No figures on cable access, the second way of getting broadband, were given.