Despite the speculation this week that Wi-Fi will be a short-lived phenomena recent research by the iPass Mobile Broadband Index has found that London a hot place in the world for Wi-Fi use.
The survey, which took into account numbers for second half of 2007, found that around 30,000 Wi-Fi sessions were used in London, heralding a growth of 150% over the previous year.
The US came on top of the country list for the heaviest Wi-Fi use, buying four times as many sessions as the UK. However growth for the US was only 60%, compared to the UK’s 121%.
In the UK 3G connections accounted for most of the mobile broadband connections with an increase from over 150MB per user per month in the third quarter to almost 200MB in the fourth quarter.
Public hotspots such as airports and railway stations accounted for the dramatic rise in Wi-Fi use in the UK, with Heathrow airport hosting over 41,000 sessions.
Source: Pocket-Lint
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