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Wi-Fi Hotspot Market

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

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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