The Long Goodbye of Wi-Fi Has Begun

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The Long Goodbye of Wi-Fi Has Begun
In ten years, we won’t need Wi-Fi.
He thinks the end of Wi-Fi is nigh because he believes that allocating spectrum in smaller chunks will let municipalities, universities, and companies create private 5G cellular networks.
The convenience of those networks will impel companies to choose cellular connections over Wi-Fi for their IoT devices.
Zach Supalla, the CEO of Particle, a company that supplies IoT components to businesses with little experience building connected products, says more than half of the IoT devices in Particle’s cloud that use cellular connections are also within range of a Wi-Fi network.
Supalla says that companies choose cellular modules over Wi-Fi because the modules are easier to set up and businesses can better control the consumer experience.
Wi-Fi devices are notoriously difficult to connect to one another, or pair.
To get a connected product on their home Wi-Fi network, consumers must often pair with a software-based access point before switching the device over to their own network.
Even I, a reporter who has tested hundreds of connected devices, fail to get a device on my network on the first try roughly a third of the time.
To make it easier, Amazon and Google have both created proprietary onboarding processes that handle the setup on behalf of the user, so that when consumers power their devices on, they automatically try to join their network.
When you’re faced with multiple Wi-Fi ecosystems, cellular is just easier, Hussain says.
Cellular networks cost more now because you have to install radios on the devices and pay a subscription to use the cellular network.
If new roaming plans are developed to allow devices to come onto these local networks easily, similar to joining a Wi-Fi hotspot, cellular connectivity will become practically free

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