{"id":21063,"date":"2013-06-10T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/taiwan-introduces-free-wi-fi-for-all-international-visitors-2\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:31:00","slug":"taiwan-introduces-free-wi-fi-for-all-international-visitors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/06\/taiwan-introduces-free-wi-fi-for-all-international-visitors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan introduces free Wi-Fi for all international visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-family:&#39;Century Gothic&#39;,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\"> Taiwan&#8217;s international visitors can now connect   to the Internet all over Taiwan completely free of charge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">The free Wi-Fi access follows a move by the Taiwan government together with regional government bodies to set up some 4,400 &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217; WiFi hotspots at major tourist spots, transportation   hubs, cultural establishments, and government offices all over the island.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">The Taiwan Tourism said the new service will considerably brighten Taiwan&#8217;s already shining image for quality travel services.<\/p>\n<p>  Tourists entering the island can apply for an &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217; account on arrival at Taoyuan International Airport at the  <span>\u00a0<\/span>Taiwan Tourism Bureau service counter or at any visitor center throughout the island.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">All they need is a passport and once their account is open, they can go online with their Internet-enabled smart phones, laptops, or tablet computers at any &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217; hotspot   anywhere on Taiwan. All they have to do is select the &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217;<span>\u00a0  <\/span>SSID and enter their account number and password. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">This will give them access to tourist information as well as allowing them to contact anyone anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>  In addition to the free &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217; service, further roaming agreements have also been established to allow free access to &#8216;TPE-Free&#8217; in Taipei City, New Taipei in New Taipei, iTaichung in Taichung, and Tainan-WiFi in Tainan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">Visit  <a href=\"http:\/\/itaiwan.gov.tw\/en\" target=\"_blank\"><span>http:\/\/itaiwan.gov.tw\/en<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s international visitors can now connect to the Internet all over Taiwan completely free of charge. \u00a0 The free Wi-Fi access follows a move by the Taiwan government together with regional government bodies to set up some 4,400 &#8216;iTaiwan&#8217; WiFi hotspots at major tourist spots, transportation hubs, cultural establishments, and government offices all over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}