This week is filled with WiFi news which is good i guess for all of us. So after the Uk and France Hong Kong decides to take WiFi a bit further down the road by outfitting its MTR with antennas.
"The service will first be introduced in station concourses and on platforms this summer. Wu Liang-tai, the company's executive vice-president for emerging technology, said putting it in trains for access on the go was the next step.A third-generation (3G) mobile-phone network allows users to connect to the internet on the move at speeds of 3.6 megabits per second. Wi-fi (wireless fidelity) gives users online access at 54 megabits per second, fast enough to watch videos on the internet. It costs HK$20 a day for unlimited access.
On trains, it would work with receivers at each end of the train picking up a 3.5G signal from transmitters in the tunnel. The Wi-fi network will give users access to the internet through Wi-fi-compatible devices such as laptop computers and mobile phones.

"Wi-fi is much cheaper than 3G for internet access, so we can deliver our content to users when they are on MTR trains," Dr Wu said on the sidelines of a telecoms conference in Beijing.

A new and free Wi-Fi service launched in Paris during opening hours at 105 municipal buildings and parks. The service uses Alcatel-Lucent base stations is run by SFR and it will be extended to 400 hotspots by September according to projections. The service required a 2.5 million euros investment by the Ile-de-France region and municipal government, plus 500,000 euros in annual operating costs. Orange recently launched legal action arguing that city hall should not intervene in the telecommunications market and that it cannot manage a public telecommunications network unless all operators are allowed to use it.
Is it a coincidence that the same happened to the UK a couple of days ago ? :)