The wireless carrier Wi-Fi market will reach $4...
The wireless carrier Wi-Fi market will reach $4 billion by 2018, Mobile Experts said Tuesday in a report. That growth will come as carriers are expected to rapidly adopt 802.11ac technology, driving use of 5 GHz radios in handsets, Mobile…
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Experts said. Carriers are also expected to quickly offload mobile data onto Wi-Fi, “creating a need for new controller architectures and network integration software for interoperability with mobile networks,” said Jacob Sharony, Mobile Experts senior analyst, in a news release. Wi-Fi is “much cheaper” than LTE per bit delivered, causing some carriers to invest in Wi-Fi to take advantage of rapid deployments at a “very low cost,” said Joe Madden, Mobile Experts principal analyst, in a news release. “We are tracking multiple projects that combine small cells and Wi-Fi, with interesting combinations in DAS networks and other variations as well” (http://bit.ly/18x4Esv).