It is expected that the number of wireless broadband internet hotspots for accessing the service could multiply three times in the United Kingdom over the coming few years. This WiFi hotspot boom expected across the country would be driven by the growing demand from mobile broadband consumers and iPhone customers, besides a trend of the late that is all about people being increasingly taken to community WiFi projects.
This is apparent in the view of the chief executive officer of Freerunner, Owen Geddes that although the United Kingdom was having about ten thousand WiFi hotspots currently, this figure is expected to grow to thirty thousand by the year 2012. Freerunner is a start up WiFi firm that had shot into prime time news recently by teaming up with O2 to launch WiFi hotspots in rural communities in the UK.
If Freerunner is at present operating around 1200 WiFi hotspots across the country and hopes to add four hundred per month to achieve its goal of ten thousand within a couple of years, BT the prominent fixed-line broadband provider in the UK has 4000 public WiFi hotspots across the country.
BT commented on the development that it had witnessed the broadband internet traffic double in 2009 and expected the customers to be consuming around one billion WiFi minutes on its own WiFi networks by March 2010.
Meanwhile, In-Stat a market study agency observed that the WiFi usage across the world has increased by forty seven per cent in the year 2009, with around 245,000 WiFi broadband hotspots serving around the world.
Most of the agencies as well as a few mobile broadband and mobile phone networks have disclosed that an increased popularity of Apple iPhone and mobile broadband dongles among the customers have resulted in increased demand, which in its turn has called on for an increase in the WiFi internet access hotspots in the world.
04-01-2010
