Are Wi-Fi hot spots going the way of public telephone booths?

Johan Bergendahl, chief marketing officer for wireless equipment maker Ericsson, thinks they are. Bergendahl told an audience Monday during his keynote address at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm that as more people use wireless broadband fewer people will use Wi-Fi hot spots in public places.

“Hot spots at places like Starbucks are becoming the telephone boxes of the broadband era,” Bergendahl was quoted as saying by IDG News Service.

Bergendahl argued that wireless broadband is growing faster than mixed or fixed telephony. And that eventually people will have no need to connect to hot spots, because wireless will be baked into their laptops and other devices. And service will be available everywhere. Read more »

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