Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Wi-Fi technology will account...
Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Wi-Fi technology will account for $150 billion in operator revenue by 2018, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) said Friday in a report. The report, done with research firm Senza Fili, said the technology has advanced as…
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a result of advanced trials involving major operators and vendors. The additional interest “will ultimately give users easier access to a far greater number of public Wi-Fi access points around the world, without the need for usernames and passwords,” WBA said in a news release. The increased need for additional Wi-Fi capacity to address mobile data usage issues has resulted in a move away from legacy hotspot Wi-Fi technology and toward NGH, WBA said. A higher proportion of data traffic carried over HG Wi-Fi results in reduced per-bit costs, with carriers reporting their per-bit RAN costs reduced by 18 percent when they use NGH to carry 20 percent of their data traffic, the report said. The per-bit cost of a network that uses NGH Wi-Fi and 4G small cells could be as low as 38 percent of the cost of a 3G macro network, WBA said in the report (http://bit.ly/14Ni8CA).