Vast market for home networking - Insight: One Month's Telecom Research - 50 million Wi-Fi connections by 2007 - Brief Article

Telecom Asia, Feb, 2004

More than 50 million homes in Europe, the US and Asia will have Wi-Fi connections by 2007, a BWCS report projects. This growth will create opportunity net just for product vendors but for service providers and content owners. The report notes that Japan and Korea, where domestic Wi-Fi adoption has been strong, are now moving into the next phase, which is marked by the convergence of applications on the PC and TV and the use of devices such as cameras and MP3 players. BWCS says companies' main challenge will be supporting voice and video applications in terms of providing quality of service, data rates coverage and plug-and-play connectivity.

Wi-Fi Home Networking--The Emerging Broadband Home

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