South Africa: Cisco Says Wifi Rise Offers More Opportunities to Service Providers

6 November 2012

Cisco has released research finding on WiFi and how consumers use WiFi. Cisco predicts that mobile data traffic will increase 18 fold from 2011 to 2016. At the same time, Cisco reports that the use of WiFi for Internet access is exploding as more mobile devices are WiFi enabled and the number of public hotspots grows amidst wide user acceptance of WiFi. The report was released on the 24th of October by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) by Stuart Taylor and Andy Young. The report was based on a research of 1,079 United States mobile users.

There has been an "explosion" of nomadic devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets and ereaders. These include the iPad - 88 percent of iPads sold in the UK were WiFi only. All these devices all have WiFi capability but only 20 percent had cellular connectivity.

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