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1 In 3 Home Routers Will Be Used As Public Wi-Fi Hotspots By 2017

Posted by timothy on from the osint-analyze-that-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Juniper Research predicts that at least 1 in 3 home routers will be used as public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2017, and that the total installed base of such dual-use routers will reach 366 million globally by the end of 2020. Major broadband operators such as BT, UPC and Virgin Media in Europe and several of the biggest cable TV operators in the U.S. such as Comcast and Cablevision have adopted the homespot model as a low-cost way of rapidly expanding their domestic Wi-Fi coverage.

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  1. If they're unpatched Juniper routers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they already are?