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

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 28, 2016 @04:47AM 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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Conflicting goals by CrankyOldEngineer · 2016-01-28 04:56 · Score: 4, Insightful

How will ISPs help enforce copyright laws if they don't know who is using your router?

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Re:I saw it coming by blackomegax · 2016-01-28 06:16 · Score: 4, Insightful

You must never have done math. wifi chips consume 100-200 milliwatts, max, and that's under load. Idle is much lower. That's less than 10 cents a month, full tilt.