A new report by ABI Research predicts that the number of Wi-Fi hotspots is supposed to grow forty percent in 2008 as compared to 2007. The majority of those hot spots are being launched throughout Europe and many of them are located on public transportation and in travel service locations such as airports. The report suggests that a majority of these hotspots will offer high-speed Internet for free, stating that fee-based Wi-Fi is counterproductive because people don t want to pay for connectivity but will pay for value-add content downloads . Some argue that this thinking is incorrect; that people want a fast connection so they can do the things that they like to do online and that they don t want to be bothered by a bunch of added content offers by their hotspot provider. However ABI makes the point that the variety of different methods one may use to access the Internet (moving between a 3G phone connection and a Wi-Fi service, for example) causes charging for connectivity alone to make less and less sense.
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