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Wi-Fi hotspots: the answer to Internet services overpowering mobile services

The world used to have cellular phones to be able to connect with other people using the macro network. Then it also has the internet which has evolved to using the easily accessible Wi-Fi network. Now, the world has both in one single form- popularly known as Smartphones.

However, Smartphones are only able to offload internet-based services when using Wi-Fi. This makes online services like Skype and YouTube receiving more bars of coverage than the operator’s own revenue-based voice, data and video services. The situation results to the former overpowering the latter regarding coverage area. In addition to this, cellular phones additional battery-drain concerns since they are using up multiple services in an instantaneous manner.

The problem comes off as simple as this: subscribers feel discouraged to use Wi-Fi along with the lingering unresolved operator capacity and coverage problems.

That is why Kineto Wireless has developed a "Wi-Fi Offload" platform, which enables operators to run mobile services using Wi-Fi, given that the subscriber is within a suitable hotspot range. According to Kineto, the platform can deliver mobile services over Wi-Fi instead of the macro network, brushing off the battery-drain concern. Bottom point this also frees the spectrum for outdoor users.

US Still Leads More Wi-Fi Hotspots Access Points Than Europe

Insurmountable unexpected consequences might hit you upon leaving your Wi-Fi unprotected. It may range from petty glitches on your own system down to the vast destruction to even a large population and coverage such as a nation.

Alarmingly, United States of America tops the list of countries and territories with unsecured Wi-Fi connections. There are a total of forty percent of all access points in the United States that are open and unsecured. WeFi laid out a factsheet that in Europe, there are only twenty-five percent of hotspots that are open. This number is comparably low as to the percentage that of the US.  On the other hand, France has a relatively large number of open access points with captive portals. It is quite an interesting fact to know that these captive portals were utilized into different access points in order to moderate the wide open availability of connection for diverse users. These can aid in monitoring access and preventing exploitation to a certain degree.

As estimated by WeFi, there are almost 1/3 unprotected access points of the all the spots of Wi-Fi in the world.