VisionChina Media Inc., a company that currently operates over 100,000 digital display screens in subway stations in 19 Chinese cities, is looking to Huawei and China Unicom to help launch a free Wi-Fi service for the public transport sector. The idea is to provide free Wi-Fi with advanced video and location-based services in urban buses and trains. The 3G/4G/LTE network would be used for backhaul.
“We believe the establishment of a national WIFI network across China’s mass transportation systems will deliver unique value to urban commuters and national and multinational advertisers alike,” said Mr. Limin Li, VisionChina Media’s chairman and chief executive officer. “We aim to provide ubiquitous, high quality internet access that will make the daily commute for tens of millions of daily riders more enjoyable, while offering advertisers big data analytics and precision marketing ophttp://www.visionchina.cn/portunities that will help ensure ads reach their audiences more effectively.”
