Articles tagged with: Starbucks and Voip

Sales of Wi-Fi phones up 60%, wireless LAN equipment up 20% in 2007

Worldwide sales of wireless LAN equipment, including independent and dependent access points and WLAN switches and controllers, hit $1.9 billion in 2007, up 20% from 2006, driven by the increased rollout of enterprise wireless LANs and accelerating upgrading to 802.11n, according to Infonetics Research's latest quarterly report.  more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, cisco, smartphones, blackberry, hotspots, wlan, 802.11n, 802.11g

Wi-Fi in handsets - bright future or dismal prospects?

The industry hype and level of discussion surrounding fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) would lead most casual industry observers to believe that in the near future all handsets will feature Wi-Fi capabilities, and that everyone will use their cellular handsets to make voice over IP (VoIP) calls in the home and the office.  more

Related Tags: skype, o2, ims, fmc, femtocells, hotspot, hotspots, wlan, chipset