#LTENA: The Future Of Wi-Fi. @WBAlliance Keynote Presentation
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Shrikant Shenwai - CEO of Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) presents "The Future of Wi-Fi: The carrier Wi-Fi evolution and the next generation hotspot (NGH) live experience at 2014 LTE North America conference in Dallas, TX
Key takeaways: Wi-Fi is everywhere
Wi-Fi global growth is unstoppable. Over 4 billion Wi-Fi enabled devices in use globally - 7 billion by 2018. Strategy analytics projects that 1 hotspots exists today per 150 people growing to 1 hotspot per 20 people by 2018.
Wi-Fi is a carrier friend - lowers cost of mobile data delivery. Next Generation Wi-Fi enables cellular like experience (seamless, secure, interoperable) and will reduce total cost per gigabit from $14.50 to $8.50 by combining Wi-Fi + Small Cell + LTE (Senza Fili)
LTE or Wi-Fil alone cannot feed insatiable data demand. Global share of data carried by Wi-Fi to grow from 45% to 52% by 2018 (Cisco Wi-Fi report). In US, 70% of mobile broadband occurs over Wi-Fi (Nielson Panel).
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