25% More WiFi Hotspot this year

This figure comes out of an ABI Research study which estimates that this year 900 000 WiFi routers will be shipped to create new hotspots. US and EU still is 72% of the market but Asia is starting to move. Europe is even the market leader with 70 000 locations… awesome when you think that WiFi is mainly a US technology. China is going much slower than expected … which opens up a real business opportunity as cheap technical solutions have appeared to manage HotSpot markets (check WaveStorm’s µHotSpot and SiteNexus used by Spotcoffee). Hospitality counts 46 000 hotspots world wide putting it as the main provider of such service.