Ericsson’s Chief Marketing Officer, Johan Bergendahl, said earlier today that he believes wireless broadband, known here as 3G, WiMAX, or a variety of other acronyms, will soon replace Wi-Fi as the de-facto wireless standard.
And he’s right.
Laptops are outselling desktops at a decent clip, and handsets are getting more and more powerful, with bigger, higher-resolution screens. The combination means we’re more mobile than ever, and that requires connectivity. Unless some big providers really step up their implementations, Wi-Fi will indeed go the way of the landline phone: It’ll never go away completely, but it won’t be our primary communications channel.
Ericsson predicts demise of hotspots [Infoworld]
When Wimax comes it will be..
Yeah, there will remain a place for wifi in locations where cellular reception is lacking – and in businesses where networks are important for data tracking, file sharing, printer sharing, etc. However – I cannot wait to be free of the limited hotspot! Bring it on! !
it’s going to be some time before the WIFI will become useless