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VIRTUALISATION Tomizone offers pay-by-credit card access to 2000 Chinese hotspots
VIRTUALISATION Tomizone offers pay-by-credit card access to 2000 Chinese hotspots | Tomizone offers pay-by-credit card access to 2000 Chinese hotspots |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 18 March 2009 | |
  
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Tomizone founder and CEO Steve Simms, told iTWire that China Mobile and China Unicom planned to increase the number of hotspots to 10,000 by the end of the year "primarily in tier one locations such as airports and major hotels." He conceded that the price of access was higher than that Tomizone charges for access to its Australian and New Zealand hotspots, but said this was largely governed by China Telecom. At present users can buy access for a maximum of three hours, which expires three hours after sign on, but Simms said he was looking at other pricing possibilities. Coordinate Technologies is a specialist system integrator that facilitates bilateral international roaming with Chinese wireless broadband networks, enabling subscribers of international operators and aggregators like iPass and Boingo to access Chinese WiFi hotspots. Tomizone's main modus operandi to date has been to enable individuals with a broadband connection and a WiFi access point to offer access to the Internet to others for a fee (shared 50/50 with Tomizone). This service is enabled via software embedded in certain D-Link WiFi access point broadband routers (available in retail stores in Australia). It claims to be the largest hotspot operator in Australia with some 6000 installed.
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