Wi-Fi routers are becoming standard appliances in homes throughout the developed world, but the U.S. does not top the list when it comes to router adoption.
Wi-Fi home router penetration
Wireless continues to be the world’s primary gateway to the Internet, with smartphone subscriptions outnumbering fixed Internet connections in homes by almost 3-to-1. (1.9 billion vs. 690 million.) More than half of fixed-line subscribers complement their broadband connection with a Wi-Fi router, according to Strategy Analytics. The firm predicts there will be 451 million home-based wireless networks by the end of this year, and 41% of those will be in the Asia-Pacific region.
Eighty percent of households with broadband Internet connections will have Wi-Fi routers by 2018, according to Strategy Analytics. Right now, the firm says the only country with that level of Wi-Fi penetration is the Netherlands. The U.S. ranks No. 11 in the world with 57.8% penetration.
The Wi-Fi Alliance estimates that 71% of wireless traffic already moves over Wi-Fi networks, and Cisco estimates that last year mobile operators offloaded 45% of their traffic to Wi-Fi or to femtocells.
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