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How the 3G operators can learn to love wifi hotspots
19 July 2011
Interview: Barbara Nelson of iPass. As smartphone owners seek out wifi as a way of cutting data charges, iPass has launched a service that allows 3G companies to manage the connection
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Barbara Nelson: Mobile operators used to see wifi as
unnecessary because of 3G. But 3G networks cannot cope with
data at prices users are willing to pay
As the mobile industry starts to run out of backhaul capacity on their 3G networks, wifi hotspot owners are seeing a new opportunity to connect smartphones with data networks more cheaply —...
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