China Wireless City Business Model and Investment Strategy Planning Report, 2013-2017

A wireless city means a city covering by a high-speed wireless network, realizing the goal of accessing to the web at anytime and anywhere, to grasp information services. The wireless helps to pass information to departments and individuals rapidly, diversely and conveniently. It’s called “the fifth public infrastructure” after water, electricity, gas, and transportation. The wireless city integrates a series emerging technologies, including mobile communication, mobile internet, cloud computing and Internet of Things. The rising of “wireless cities” is the natural extension and expansion for the development tide of mobile communication.

On July 2004, Philadelphia was first to plan to construct wireless broadband network, based on WLAN, which was also called “Wireless Philadelphia”. Afterwards, the construction tide of wireless city begins to sweep the globe. As of the end of 2011, there were more than 1,000 cities planning to build wireless cities or being building wireless cities, in order to meet the needs of public access, public safety, and public services. These cities include Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles in USA, London in UK, Ontario in Canada, Perth in Australia, Wellington in New Zealand, Amsterdam in Holland, Hamburg in Germany, Jerusalem in Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan in China, etc.

This tide of constructing wireless cities begins to gradually heat up after it affects the mainland China. In terms of wireless city construction, many cities in China have first to conduct wireless city construction program, such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. Afterwards, other more than 20 cities have also proposed and launched the wireless city construction plan in succession, such as Wuhan, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Kunming, Yangzhou, Chengdu, etc. In 2011, the wireless city construction has speeded up fully around the whole country. Meanwhile, the construction pace of “wireless city clusters” has also begun to accelerate. Specifically, Jiangsu province is accelerating to build a Jiangsu Wireless Broadband City Cluster, with the core of Nanjing and other major cities. Fujian province officially launched the construction of “wireless city cluster” in January 2011, and Sichuan province has invested tens of billion Yuan in officially launching the construction of “wireless city cluster”.

With the several years of fast development, the advantages of informalization development and people’s living quality promotion brought by wireless city have gradually unfolded, and people have generally recognized it. As of the end of February 2012, there were 30 provinces and 274 cities promoting the online wireless city portal, and there were 14,165 applications online. With the increasing acceleration of wireless city construction, the wireless city’s fruits will be show up in a few years later – lowering administrative cost, improving work efficiency, promoting urban competitiveness, improving public services, improving living quality, etc. Meanwhile, as a stage of urban informalization, China wireless city construction will gradually transit to a higher construction stage, “smart city”.

From the perspectives of China wireless city definition, connotation, and industrial chain, this report analyzes the construction experience of wireless city construction in all countries around the world, the development status of China wireless cities, the business models of China wireless city construction, the market situation of China wireless city application, the key technologies of China wireless city construction, the construction experience of China key wireless cities, as well as the operational conditions of China wireless city operators, equipment providers and solutions providers. Meanwhile, this report dissects the realistic problems and challenges of China current wireless city construction objectively, and based on the development history and other countries’ practical experience of wireless city, this report provides prudent suggestions for the development of wireless city. This report aims at helping wireless city operators, equipment and software providers, wireless city system integrators, and governments and departments which plan to invest in wireless city to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and provide comprehensive and instant references for defining enterprises’ development directions.

Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Wireless City