ChinaTel Completes Installation of Internet Access Network in Beijing

ChinaTel Group, a telecommunications infrastructure engineering and construction firm, has completed the installation of the first phase of an internet wireless network in Beijing for CECT-Chinacomm Communications.

According to the company, the wireless network is live and provides internet access services across approximately 100 square kilometers of metropolitan Beijing, including the second ring, third ring, CBD Commercial Zone, Financial District, Zhong-Guan Village, Wangjing Economy-Technology Development Zone, Xuanwuchun Village and Yizhuang.

Trussnet, a subsidiary of ChinaTel Group, is a party to contracts with CECT-Chinacomm Communications that provide for Trussnet to engineer and install a next generation wireless internet access network that brings high-speed wireless broadband services to mainland Chinese residents, businesses and government agencies. The contracts provide for Trussnet as the exclusive contractor for the 29 city China infrastructure project.

The proposed network, being constructed by the Trussnet is a WiMAX and Mesh Wi-Fi network. Wireless broadband services will be provided on the 3.5GHz radio frequency spectrum that the Chinese government has granted use to Chinacomm for its WiMAX broadband services.