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Ericsson predicts demise of wi-fi hotspots
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by Dave Keating | March 11, 2008 at 03:13 am
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As mobile broadband takes off, Wi-Fi hotspots will become as irrelevant as telephone booths, Ericsson Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl said Monday. Mobile broadband is growing faster than mobile or fixed telephony ever did, Bergendahl said.
"In Austria they are saying that mobile broadband will pass fixed broadband this year. It's already growing faster, and in Sweden, the most popular phone is a USB modem," said Bergendahl, who was the keynote speaker at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm.
As more people start using mobile broadband, hot spots will no longer be needed. "Hotspots at places like Starbucks are becoming the telephone boxes of the broadband era," said Bergendahl.
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at 14:21 on March 11th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff. Mobile Broadband is becoming an affordable solution. The download restrictions make it expensive compared to fixed broadband.
at 07:54 on March 15th, 2008
In Canada, it's gong to be quite some time before mobile broadband is viable for anyone actually paying their own mobile bill... data plans are prohibitively expensive for anything beyond checking the occasional email. Most hotspots are both fast and free, which is pretty hard to beat.The only downside is that they're localized, whereas mobile broadband exists wherever you get mobile-phone reception.