Mobile data market trends: 3G to WiFi seamless in hotspot-2

As per some of the latest surveys, the mobile data market is attractive for internet service providers to growth in usage of 3G enabled smart phones. Mobile data traffic is predicted to grow 15x faster in next 3/4 years, making this an interesting market. This makes wireless more attractive over wire for both service providers as well as users. However 3G/4G wireless data services is not available everywhere, and in crowded places like hotels, malls, offices Wi-Fi is already a norm and also you hardly find a mobile computing device such as notebook, tablet and smart phone without WiFi, also WiFi is cheaper than 3G. This makes the service providers to provide seamless transition between 3G and Wi-Fi, when the user moves from 3G cell to Wi-Fi circle otherwise called WiFi Hotspot. The seamless transition should also help service provider to generate revenue. Presently that is the focus of service providers, to earn revenue from booming mobile data market. Other advantage to the mobile operators is they can offload the traffic to the Wi-Fi networks so that 3G capacity can be increased. Greenpacket has developed Signal Assisted Switching methodology for Wi-Fi network switching in mobile data offloading. Greenpacket explains "The Signal Assisted Switching methodology in mobile data offloading enhances user experience by ensuring the device will only connect to a Wi-Fi ...