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Free Wi-Fi service to be available on Tokyo buses

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NTT Broadband Platform Inc plans to introduce free Wi-Fi service on all buses operated by the Tokyo metropolitan government by next March.

The company said in a statement posted on its website that the service will debut Dec 20 on buses running between Shimbashi and Shibuya via Roppongi. By the end of March, the plan is to have the Wi-Fi service available on all 1,452 Toei buses operating in the capital by March 31.

Passengers will be able to use the Wi-Fi service as many times as they wish, up to three hours at a time.

Available languages are Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.

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A good idea, but it's kinda hard to use a computer on a transit bus Free Wifi is really needed in coffee shops, parks, trains, airports, etc. where people can have the chance to do some work.

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wow

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Wow, so the internet comes in four languages now... Impressive!

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Too late for me as I already use a Pocket-Wifi LTE.

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I hope Tokyu, Odakyu, Keio, Seibu, and the other bus companies take a hint and get with it too.

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Real fun to be on your PC and not pating attention to what stop to get off st and??? Be late for work or school!!!

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Wow, FINALLY trying to catch up with the REST of the World; eh?, but starting on BUSES?

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Hmm ...is this really "free"? I seem to recall that the airport buses claim "free" wifi connectivity, but in reality you only get free connection to their homepage. Actual connection to the internet is a paid service....

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Why would you need Wifi on a moving and probably crowded bus?? It sounds like the leas useful place to provide it. Wifi in station areas and lobbies of public buildings would make much more sense.

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Haha Farmboy, you really are living on a farm! In the 1980's perhaps. That's really made me chuckle.

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@theResident, Farmboy is right, actual open free Wifi is pretty rare in Tokyo. Oftentimes it's only free if you have a contract with a provider that also includes access to wifi in selected spots. In some cases this wifi access is limited to the device that was given to you by the provider. When I asked Softbank how to connect my laptop to the "free wifi" I was paying them for, they looked as if I was from outer space.

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i find in all my traveling that japan is the stingiest place on earth for free wifi. as a for instance, on the streets and even on the beach in tel aviv you get free wifi. and here, not even in kansai international airport is it free (unless you're already about to board an international flight, and only if you are within 5 meters at most from one or two extremely short-range hotspots). shame on you!

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I don't think 'free wifi' is really free. They have the ability to track and record your web surfing, and can capture your passwords.

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I don't think 'free wifi' is really free. They have the ability to track and record your web surfing, and can capture your passwords.

too true, the same as gooogle and yahooo and NSA all do by be default, no matter where you use them, from home or from free wifis

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Too little, too late.

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