The city’s first wireless hotspots created last year has now expanded to cover about 100 hotels and restaurants. According to Shanghai official’s plan, about 2000 extra network access points in the city’s public areas and wireless broadband and service will be completed in the busy commercial districts of Xujiahui, Jiading and Pudong.

The first practice of the plan has recently been carried out in the Nanjing Pedestrian Mall area. The whole wireless areas will be ready for use in 2008.

Wireless broadband network has gradually become an essential part of a city’s infrastructure and Shanghai is not the first city to become wireless. Last year, about 300 cities all over the world were trying to establish wireless broadband services. In China, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Shenzhen are competing to become the first “wireless city”.