December 29, 2009

Andrew Garcia of eWeek has written an interesting piece on the growing need for carriers to off load data trafffic onto Wi-Fi networks. It’s entitled Wi-Fi Could Be Used to Shore Up Wireelss Networks Sagging From Smartphone Use.

Noting for one the predicament that AT+T finds itself in,especially in San Francisco and New York, where iPhones are overloading the network, he posits the creation of “muni-lite” networks, large Wi-Fi Hot Zones were a carrier’s customers could go to connect via Wi-Fi for their data needs.

Wired Towns has started to build such networks, in effect, in Times Square, in Rockefeller Plaza and Union Square. Our networks, though, are not built on behalf of a specific carrier, but are open to all. Any Smartphone user that needs to connect can.

Over the coming year, we will be expanding the networks we have already built, and will be building new and larger ones to meet the data demands of Smartphone users. Since mobile data use is projected to grow at 129% CAGR through 2015, the market absolutely needs companies that can deliver large scale turnkey Wi-Fi Hot Zone solutions.

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