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Wi-Fi for the Marketer

You've heard the hype: Wi-Fi is booming. Businesses large and small are partnering with telecommunications and development companies to create Wi-Fi hotspots. The Yankee Group reports the U.S. will have 72,480 hotspots by 2007, and estimates the number of global wireless Internet users will grow to 1.78 billion by the same year. In-Stat/MDR puts the latter number even higher. The company says the market is likely to gain an average of 186 million new subscribers annually to reach a total of 2 billion by 2007.

Read the whole story at ClickZ, October 28, 2004 »

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