Wi-Fi to reach 42 countries
1 July 2004
Wireless Internet access is set to reach millions more potential users across the globe after deals were announced to expand the technology to over 15,000 access points in 42 countries.
Softbank BB, a unit of Softbank, and Yahoo Japan, said they had signed wireless roaming agreements with four companies.
The agreements will see nations such as Japan, where mobile phones are still more common than laptop computers for quick Internet access, catch up with countries such as the US, where business professionals use wireless enabled laptops enhance their work-productivity and efficiency.
Softbank BB currently offers Wi-Fi access on a trial basis at no charge in 636 locations in Japan, including restaurants, airports and hotels.
It plans to expand the number to 5,000 by the end of its current business year ending March 2005, making it the largest Wi-Fi provider in Japan.
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