The iPass Mobile Broadband Index summarizes 3G and Wi-Fi hotspot usage, collected by iPass across its base of approximately 1,000,000 quarterly users.
The report summarizes global Wi-Fi hotspot session* data collected from January 1 through June 30, 2007 and 3G and 2.5G mobile broadband usage data in the US for the year 2007.
The data comes from iPass internal systems and represents usage on iPass Wi-Fi hotspot and mobile data networks, with a network including more than 90,000 hotspots and 3G services and over 3,000 business customers.
iPass found that Europe expanded its worldwide share of hotspot use to 40 percent, up from 31 percent in H2 2006. At this rate Europe would pass North America as the top Wi-Fi continent during 2008.
UK users played a major role in this increase, boosting London’s lead as the world capital for retail Wi-Fi in 2007, escalating usage by 156 percent over the same time period in the previous year. Other major contributors to European growth were France and Germany, where usage tripled from 2H06 to 2H07.
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