In a recent post on Total telecom, France Telecom says that WiFI is the right approach to off-load mobile data traffic. The challanges lies, however, in the available spectrum and in backhaul: “The majority of smartphones are capable of using WiFi in the 2.4-GHz band. Orange has a 5-GHz band, which could potentially handle 75% of its WiFi requirements, but just 1% of the smartphones on its networks can use that band”, Maloberti said according to Total telecom.
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The mobile manufacturers will also have to come up with power efficient wifi solutions in their smart phones. Currently the battery drain is huge in smartphones, when using WiFi, as compared to using a mobile network. Do you agree?