Now Taiwan wants to be world's biggest WiFi hotspot

Well, looks like Taiwan too now wants to jump on the wireless data bandwagon, following Philadelphia and San Francisco; they've introduced a project plan they're titling M-Taiwan (hmm, wonder what that M could stand for?) that would cost 1.1 billion and shroud the island in cloud of WiFi and something they call iB3G, or Internet Beyond 3G (beats us, but they describe it as 802.11b/g service for 3G/GSM cellphones with WiFi). And apparently all this is going to begin starting Q1 next year, so watch out, wireless data comin' out the yin-yang.

[Via TechDirt]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

I believe i read that Taiwan was way beyond in broadband or access to the Internet. The goverment went heavy on the net-investment some years ago..

Guess they are now trying to keep it up..

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:03AM]

Any wardrivers in Taiwan? Upload your scans to http://www.wifimaps.com, this will populate the views for that area, and you can see what wardrivers already have discovered in Taiwan, as well as other places.