Does mobile broadband spell the end for WiFi?

Endofwifi_smallI find myself using mobile broadband more than I use WiFi when I am out and about.  It’s a practical issue, I always have my mobile broadband with me, either EV-DO or HSDPA, no matter where I am so I don’t have to look for WiFi hotspots.  My high-speed hotspot comes with me with the mobile broadband so the major factor for high-speed connectivity, access, is solved by my gadgetry I carry.  WiFi is still king in Mobile Tech Manor but when I’m out and mobile it is relegated to a second tier solution for me.  Ericsson is predicting, boldly I admit, that mobile broadband spells the end of WiFi for the same reasons I just mentioned. 

"Hotspots at places likeStarbucks are becoming the telephone boxes of the broadband era,"claimed Ericsson’s chief marketing officer Johan Bergendahl, speakingto delegates at the European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference in Stockholm.

"In Austria they are saying that mobile broadband will pass fixedbroadband this year. It’s already growing faster, and in Sweden, themost popular phone is a USB modem," Bergendahl claimed, according to ComputerWorld.

Bergendahl is mainly speaking to the European market but a lot of what he says could apply here in the US too.  Of course he doesn’t even mention WiMAX which we expect to start growing this year here on this side of the pond.

(PC Pro via TRFJ)

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