By 2013, the percentage of service providers planning to deploy Wi-Fi for street coverage jumps to 79 percent.
Two-thirds of the service providers have deployed 20,000 to over 150,000 Wi-Fi access points (APs) in public spaces. Mobile data service and scarcity of licensed spectrum will drive carrier Wi-Fi.
Nearly all carriers that Infonetics Research interviewed plan to increase the number of access points deployed by 2013.
Smartphones and tablets are named by mobile operators as the top mobile broadband devices driving their 2013 deployments of public Wi-Fi networks.
