Having already fed the Chinese market for over 20 years, the international fast food giant McDonald's has now announced plans to update its brand concept and will soon start to provide free wireless Internet services across China.

China's three major telecom operators China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom have published the performance of their 3G businesses since the country's issuance of 3G licenses on January 7, 2009.

China Telecom, the Chinese telecommunications operator that operates the CDMA network in China, has announced that its 3G signal has now covered all the suburban areas and counties outside the fifth ring road area of Beijing, realizing a full coverage of the city.

Southwest Jiaotong University will develop and deploy its wireless campus network using the 3Com Corporation's H3C enterprise wireless networking solution.

According to Liu Chuncheng, executive deputy director general of the Central Business District Management Committee of Beijing, the CBD area's application for overall wireless network coverage in public areas has gained support from Beijing's Development and Reform Commission.

Zhang Yuhang, vice director for the Application Promotion Department of the Municipal Informatization Office of Beijing, said during the Wireless City Summit 2008 held in Beijing that the capital city's wireless city construction will cover all of Beijing's urban and suburban areas before the end of 2011.

China's high speed railway from Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan will include a wireless network for all passengers to use, thanks to coverage and capacity solutions from Andrew, a division of CommScope.

The China Telecom Wuhan branch has started to promote the second phase of the deployment of hotspots for its wireless local area networks and plans to have 1,200 operational by the end of 2008.

Motorola (MOT) has deployed a campus-wide WLAN for Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications to enable multimedia Internet-based teaching, automatic academic office management, Internet access, and long-distance teaching.

A bilateral roaming agreement will provide Japan's NTT roaming subscribers trial access to over 900 Wi-Fi hotspots managed by China Mobile in six Olympic cities.

According to Zhuang Zhixin, an expert consultant from the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, China has unveiled a wireless city plan for ten cities.

AsiaInfo (ASIA) has signed a contract with China Mobile (CHL) to upgrade its WLAN authentication and billing system to satisfy demand expected during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

During the signing of a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission, China Mobile (CHL) (Shanghai) disclosed that the company would build more than 3000 3G base stations in Shanghai and apply such advanced wireless broadband technology as Wi-Fi and HSDPA throughout the city's wireless infrastructure.