According to San Bruno, Calif.-based startup Devicescape, nearly 68 percent of 3,000 people surveyed said they’d watch ads in exchange for free Wi-Fi. About 16 percent, however, want nothing to do with ads and are happy to pay for their access. Nearly 25 percent said that they are willing to pay up to $3 an hour for Wi-Fi.
Here are the projected growth of Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones in US
2009 : 38 million
2010 : 55 million
2011 : 76 million
2012 : 97 million
2013 : 118 million
2014 : 136 million
2015 : 149 million
A recent AT&T survey indicates that in the past month 43 percent of smartphone users said they had connected to an AT&T hotspot at least once. In 2009, AT&T consumers connected to an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot four times more often than they did in 2008.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, there were more than 35 million connections to the Net via an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. This is up by 10 million over the fourth quarter of 2008. The majority of these Wi-Fi connections are being made by smartphones, such as the iPhone, rather than laptops. In fact, 73 percent of Wi-Fi connections in AT&T hotspots came from “integrated devices” in the fourth quarter compared with 61 percent for all of 2009.
From: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10451819-266.html
Highlights from the November 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report include:
With the increasing prevalence of Wi-Fi enabled handsets, hotspot usage by handheld devices has increased significantly. As a percentage of total connects, handhelds increased from 20% in 2008 to 35% in 2009. By 2011 handhelds are anticipated to account for half of hotspot connects reports In-Stat.
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
From: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=30433&mapcode=
Sales of e-readers, navigation systems, digital music players, handheld game consoles and portable media players, which currently total some 400 million, are seen approaching 600 million units by 2013, In-Stat predicts. WiFi-enabled entertainment device shipments are seen rising to 177.3 million in 2013, the research group says, from 108.8 million in 2009.
( * Wi-Fi Alliance/Kelton Research, 2007; ** ABI Research)
From: http://www.wi-fi.org/knowledge_center/knowledge_center-didyouknow
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