{"id":1378,"date":"2008-08-16T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2008-08-16T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T08:22:30","slug":"1-billion-wifi-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"1 billion WiFi chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we started Fon, back in 2006, 200 million WiFi chips were sold. This year according to GigaOm<\/a> it will be 1 billion. This is a simple reminder that when critics say that 3G will kill WiFi they are just wrong. If anything 3G makes people even more interested in getting data which then operators want to offload to WiFi. The iPhone is a case in point. Why is it that when you buy songs from the iTunes store you can only do it over WiFi and not over 3G even in the 3G iPhone? The paradox of mobile carries is that they want you to pay for expensive data plans but then….use WiFi.<\/p>\n

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When we started Fon, back in 2006, 200 million WiFi chips were sold. This year according to GigaOm it will be 1 billion. This is a simple reminder that when critics say that 3G will kill WiFi they are just wrong. If anything 3G makes people even more interested in getting data which then operators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t