Wi-Fi is drawing power from the mobile phone mast
Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 14/03/2012 15:01
From Norwich to New York, hotspots are pulsing on every street. A messy urban patchwork of Wi-Fi signals is being gradually woven into a blanket of coverage which may soon be equal to the signals pumped out by mobile phone masts.
Wireless Fidelity (a non-scientific term invented by marketing people) is considered easy to hack, and the signals can often be weak, or password protected. But they are usually free and once in, they work at speeds well above the average mobile connection.
To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/13/wifi-mobile-4g
