After 3 months operated the first WiMAX service in Penghu Island, Taiwan, Tatung InfoComm expanded its WiMAX coverage to Kaoshiung City on July 8. Digitimes reported that Tatung InfoComm to secure up to 12,000 WiMAX clients in Kaohsiung City by the end of this year. In addition Tatung InfoComm plans to invest an additional NT$10 billion (US$303 million) for the build-up of
its WiMAX networks in the next five years, according to company chairperson Lin Kuo Wen-yen, who presided over an opening ceremony for the inauguration of WiMAX services in the southern port city of Kaohsiung.

Also Tatung InfoComm plans to start offering notebooks or netbooks with built-in WiMAX modules in the fourth quarter of 2009, while beginning to market WiMAX-enabled handsets and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) in 2010, said Lin Kuo, who noted that the WiMAX notebooks and netbooks will be supplied by Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and other vendors.

Acer Taiwan general manager Scott Lin, who also attended the opening ceremony, revealed that Acer has rolled out three models of notebooks with built-in WiMAX modules, and the company is ready to ship those WiMAX-enable notebooks to Tatung and other carriers.

Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan. It is enclosed by Kaohsiung County, and faces the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City.

Kaohsiung will host the World Games of 2009 on July 16 to 26, a multisport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.

According to ChinaPost, a citywide WiMAX mobile service platform offering multi-channel wireless Internet access, a mobile navigation system and a “mobile eye” security system, will be launched in Kaohsiung City for World Games participants.

The platform will later be transformed into a facility dubbed “City Guarding Angels Service” that will be available for disadvantaged citizens and also used for other city affairs, the city’s Bureau of Transportation.

Recently the sole telecommunications sponsor at The Kaohsiung World Games 2009 Chunghwa Telecom announced that the they will donate each athlete and official a mobile phone card (Ideal Card) with phone number and NT$ 200 communications charge.When NT$ 200 communications charge is used up, users can buy “Ideal Recharge Voucher” at the shopping districts or hotels

Together with Chunghwa Telecom, the Transportation Bureau will provide 1,000 bilingual PDAs that will be distributed to some of the volunteer workers, referees, judges and athletes. Users will be able to download a variety of applications providing updates and information for the games, food and shopping areas.

The “mobile eye” consists of a video recording device that can be used to film any attempts to break the law or violate public order, with the information recorded automatically and relayed to a central security facility in real time.

The NT$600 million (US$18.2 million) WiMAX platform was completed in May this year after two years of preparation and will start providing services July 16, the opening day of the games, according to the Kaohsiung Organizing Committee.

The WiMAX service is being introduced in collaboration with the Executive Yuan’s M-Taiwan Program, which aims to establish a mobile Internet access environment and take Taiwan’s penetration rate for wireless Internet from world’s 20th to fifth position.

Apparently Tatung InfoComm will provide WiMAX service to support World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung.Hot spots for receiving WiMAX include Kaohsiung International Airport, Jhongshan Rd., Bo-ai Rd. and alongside the banks of the Love River, as well as at the World Games venues.

There is no information what kind of bilingual PDAs that will distributed  to some of the volunteer workers, referees, judges and athletes. Whether it will be WiMAX-enabled PDA or only ordinary WiFi-enabled PDA.

If bilingual PDA will be WiMAX device and definitely it will manufactured by Taiwan WiMAX Company.

Could it be D0 WiMAX MID from DMedia ? Or WiMAX Smartphone powered by Android that Tatung InfoComm has been developing (rumor) ?

Via Digitimes, ChinaPost

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