Wi-Fi standards have increased in raw bit rate 7,000 times in only 15 years. It’s a remarkable result and one of the big reasons why Wi-Fi is so popular around the world. We believe that this is only the beginning. A host of entrepreneurs all over the world understand that unlicensed wireless is the perfect […]
Apple launched the Wi-Fi world into a new age by including native Wi-Fi calling in iOS back in September 2014 – and the Wi-Fi world has never been the same since. We believe that Apple’s Wi-Fi calling marks the turning point for carrier Wi-Fi everywhere as more and more Tier 1 carriers embrace the new […]
Cities & municipalities are embracing Wi-Fi like never before. In fact, we believe that free Wi-Fi for citizens, tourists, visitors will become a standard practice for all cities in the coming years. Some – like San Francisco, London, Barcelona, San Jose, and many others – have already deployed high-performance City Wi-Fi networks. What is the […]
I get this question pretty much every day: How do you make money on Wi-Fi? While there are a lot of experiments (and good ones, too) out there, there are – contrary to common belief – about five proven ways to do it. Here they are: Retention: It is absolutely certain that Wi-Fi (usually free but […]
Venues of all kinds – retail, hospitality, airports, stadiums, you name it – are playing a vital role in todays world of public Wi-Fi access. Providing free (or included) Wi-Fi is practically a given at any venue. But how to convert venue Wi-Fi into cash – whether you’re a carrier, a managed service provider, or […]
Can Wi-Fi and cellular services be combined into a single service fabric to serve consumers everywhere? The short answer is yes. Converged networks are inevitable simply because Wi-Fi provides big capacity at low cost to the mass market. The flagship, high-profile case for convergence is Google Project Fi, which combines two cellular networks and […]
You’d think that making phone calls over Wi-Fi is old news – and it is, at least from a tech point of view. But it’s also kind of a big deal. Here’s why. In September last year Apple launched native Wi-Fi calling for iOS6. Right after that, TMo USA jumped on it with ‘Wi-Fi un-leashed’ […]
If you’re a tech & business innovator these days, where do you look for the next great thing to invent? We did away with cables a long time ago. For the past 20 years or more, we’ve handed the job of connecting people to the Internet and to each other to big telcos. We still […]
This is possibly the trickiest Wi-Fi industry question to answer right now. I’ve long held that Wi-Fi is the only tech that can keep pace with the free falling price/performance curve that the tech industry has been racing down for 50 years – in other words, Moore’s Law. If Moore was right, then it’s inevitable that […]
