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Mobile Hotspot Routers Readied to Overcome Carrier Multi-Device User Issues

Author: Jeff Orr, Group Director, Consumer Research

Published: 04 Apr 2011

Consumers and business users alike want to connect many different mobile devices to the Internet – handsets, portable computers, media tablets, digital cameras, gaming handhelds, and more – anytime and anywhere. Current network operator solutions require paying to have a 3G modem built into each device and signing up for multiple, separate mobile data subscriptions. The emergence of the mobile hotspot router – a battery-powered box roughly the size of a smartphone that provides Wi-Fi access to multiple devices using a single 3G/4G mobile subscription – could fundamentally change the way that mobile communications occurs in the near future. Mobile hotspot routers are poised to address a growing problem in countries where the multi-device user is becoming prevalent.

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Enterprise Mobility Research Service and the Cellular PC Modems Research Service.

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