Starting this month, everyone in Shanghai should be able to go online for free at airports, cafes and shopping malls for two hours a day if they have a mobile phone account, says China Telecom. To get this deal, all you have to do is type your mobile phone number into China Telecom's WLAN welcome portal (which I assume pops up when you try to get on) - a temporary password will then come through to you in an SMS. I haven't tested this yet, but anyone outside on this lovely day willing to give it a go? more ›

Lord knows, the first thing we do when we're about to go to a new city is compile a list of places (coffee shops, hotel lobbies, we don't care) where we can get free wi-fi. Luckily for anyone entering Shanghai now, USA Today and JiWire have actually gone through the trouble of compiling a huge list of wi-fi locations in this city. You can even sort by what kind of venue you're looking for - whether you're planning to have a pint while surfing the net, or if you need a full-fledged business center. Of course, if you really wanted to never go without, you could also order a wi-fi detector off Taobao. more ›

Ladies and Gentlemen, China Telecom has finally officially launched its 3G commercial service in Shanghai! The new 3G network signal covers all urban areas within the Outer Ring Road, as well as towns in suburban areas. The CDMA2000-based (that's the network usually used in Europe the U.S.) 3G network technology promises to be 20 times faster than our current 2G data streams - though whether it will ever reach advertised speeds is up for debate. From today to the end of the month, users who have agreed to use 250 yuan in monthly service feeds could get trial 3G Internet access cards and high-speed wireless internet access for 100 hours a month. Source: People's Daily more ›