Free wireless hotspots outside the house, and free inside the house connection via your existing wireless network.
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From this summer it is setting up a network of wireless hotspots at public places across the city centre and in the bay.
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Now that wide-area wireless network operators recognize Wi-Fi hotspots as complementary to their advanced packet-data networks, they will end up owning or leasing most of today's hotspots and will build out coverage.
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Thanks to Verizon's blowout at CES, we've already been treated to a couple of LTE-friendly mobile hotspots from the likes of Samsung and Novatel Wireless, but Sierra Wireless is joining the crowd here at Mobile World Congress.
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Wi-Fi usage at public hotspots, home or office does not count toward the monthly wireless data plan usage.
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At the moment if you were to travel around the capital with a wireless device you would have to connect and re-connect many times to several different hotspots and possibly pay for more than one service.
It would seem there is a relatively simple solution to the wireless data deluge faced by mobile operators: shift the traffic that is tying up their networks to Wi-Fi hotspots whenever possible.
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