Citywide mobile platform ready for World Games

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 announced Monday.

Together with the games' sole telecommunication sponsor, 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.

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.

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.

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