Lovers Of Wi-Fi...

I bet you love your Wi-Fi. Well, don't get too attached. Ericsson's chief marketing officer believes that Wi-Fi is already irrelevant and will be replaced by high-speed wireless broadband sooner than we think. Roadblocks are definitely in the way, but 3.5G networks will far outstrip Wi-Fi in coverage the world over. I am not going to fault Johan Bergendahl's comments. After all, Ericsson designs and manufactures a lot of the backhaul networking equipment being used by the mobile network operators to deploy 3G and 3.5G networks. From Ericsson's point of view, these mobile broadband networks are mushrooming in size much faster than fixed telephony did. Bergendahl was the keynote speaker at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm. He told attendees, "In Austria they are saying that mobile broadband will pass fixed broadband this year. It's already growing faster, and in Sweden, the most popular phone is a USB modem. Hotspots at places like Starbucks are becoming the teleph.........