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Wi-Fi Hotspot Market

Intel keeps on pumping money into Wi-Fi, following the Centrino campaign.

The latest is a study released on Friday tracks the number of hotspots around the country (read about it here)

Note that UPENN ranks 66th on the list, behind Dartmouth (full Wi-Fi and VoWiFi implementation), but ahead of Harvard (duh!).

Of course the bigger issues are whether a commercial Wi-Fi hotspot model is really evolving beyond campusy type applications and airports. The numbers from Gartner I have predict 20K hotspots in 2004. IDC thinks we’ll have 610K Wi-Fi service users and revs of $200M in 2004. Anyone think we will get there?

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3 Responses to “Wi-Fi Hotspot Market”

  1. jerryd Says:
    April 11th, 2004 at 6:56 pm

    I think the really exciting stuff is going to be the next generation wireless technology that will allow wireless voice and data over IP in an urban setting with similar range characteristics to PCS.

  2. Tom Says:
    April 14th, 2004 at 11:14 pm

    Isn’t that 3G! ;-)

    Oh, I guess without mobility. And the huge costs associated with spectrum…

  3. Tom Says:
    April 14th, 2004 at 11:14 pm

    Isn’t that 3G! ;-)

    Oh, I guess without mobility. And the huge costs associated with spectrum…

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