Here are some regulations for hotspot implementations in China that you have to watch out for if you want to deploy a captive portal in China.

Deploying Public Guest Wi-Fi in China involves several conditions concerning legal compliance, cybersecurity, censorship laws, and user privacy. The service provider needs to obtain the necessary licenses, in addition, some Chinese provinces even demand that Wi-Fi service providers integrate surveillance technology to monitor user activity, which means they will have to use government-approved equipment.

In addition, in July 2016, the government passed a data localization mandate (part of the National Network Security Law), to ensure all personal data collected in China are stored locally in China.

As such, to deploy Chinese government compliance guest Wi-Fi, all the personal data collected for public WiFi must be collected using a Chinese Government certified Gateway; currently, only a hand full of local vendors are certified to produce.

Cloudi-Fi has an ICP Beian license to operate on the Chinese Web. Cloudi-Fi has established local user data storage in partnership with Alibaba in various data centers in China.

Finally, WeChat Connect is critical when providing guest Wi-Fi services in China; Cloudi-Fi also has a solution to provide Wechat Connect elegantly.