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Langham Place Hotel, Hong Kong: Can It Stand Up To the Hype?

Hong Kong's first new five-star hotel to open in Kowloon in a decade is calling itself  "the World's Most Technologically Advanced Hotel". The Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok has combined Cisco's IP Phone system with Crystal Voice's "Click-To-Talk" solution to enable the whole world to communicate with their guests through computers. For FREE.

Just visit Langham's Online Concierge to talk to a reservationist, hotel guest, or hotel operator. (NOTE:  Click-To-Talk is only availabe for Windows 95/98/Me, NT4.0, and Windows 2000.)

"With over 5Km of fiber optic cables, 4,000 network connections, 1,500 IP phones, 500 wireless access points and carrier-grade networking equipment, communications happen at light speed. "
—Langham Place Hotel

The 665-room, 42-storey hotel, will be a big WiFi bubble. Rooms will have in-room mobile phones to use throughout the hotel, wireless cards to borrow if your computer doesn't already have one, and large plasma screen Tvs.

"We have coined the phrase 'Omnipresent Wi-Fi' as no matter where the guests are in the hotel, they can obtain wireless voice and broadband access." commented Mr Brett Butcher, Managing Director of Langham Place Hotel."

The Langham Place opens August 1, 2004.

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