Bjorn Thorngren, VP of Business Development for Wifi hotspot specialist, Boingo, talks to Ian Scales about carrier WiFi, the rapid development of the hotspot and the ever-upward trajectory of Wifi traffic statistics.
Increasing use of WiFi and apps means that a huge proportion of a user´s activity goes unrecorded by the telco. This blind spot is not only pain for the telco but it isn´t even trapped for the user to see how much data he or she is using, or how often they´re visiting Facebook. Nigel Pollard, VP, EMEA Sales, Mobidia, explains it all to Ian Scales.
It has had an erratic hype cycle: two years ago it was all the rage, ditto a few years before that. Does it now have a permanent, assured place? Mohamed Awad, Associate product line director at Broadcom's wireless group thinks it has. NFC, he claims, will ultimately enable mobile wallet but in the mean time Broadcom will focus on integrating NFC with other radio technologies and using it to "simplify connectivity", often by bootstrapping WiFi or bluetooth for a speedy device-to-device file exchange
