With the launch of the Kuala Lumpur (KL) wireless metropolitan project at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall headquarters on May 13, 2008, the entire capital city will be covered by a wireless broadband access network in the near future.

This means that if you are in KL, you will not need to patronize certain cafes or pay for Internet services to go wireless.

Everyone in the city will be able to use the service, which runs at 512kb per second, for free over the next two years.

The service is based on WiMAX 2.3 Giga Hertz and Kuala Lumpur is among one of the first cities in the world to use this technology.

The city-wide project involves the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Synapse Technologies Sdn Bhd and Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd.

It involves two parts. The first is to make the city wireless with the collaboration of Packet One Networks while the second part is to have the city’s own portal - Portal Metropolitan Kuala Lumpur (www.kul.com.my) managed by Synapse Technologies.

If you are in KL, to use the free wireless service, register as user at www.wirelesskl.com.