It is possible that in 2020 you will not need a mobile operator

In our time, hard to find a place where there are no Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi is everywhere. Not only in restaurants and in homes, Wi-Fi brings together almost all the places human settlements. Trains, planes and automobiles are equipped with Wi-Fi.
Cruise ships have on board WI-Fi. Comcast (as British Telecom - the main partner FON - approx. Translator) turned each router set by the user, in a public Wi-Fi hotspot.

Great news if you are a subscriber of the mobile operator. The more you use services such as Netflix, Pandora or sit to Facebook, using Wi-Fi, the less money you pay to your mobile operator. Plus, you can also make calls and send text messages.

Subscribers Internet providers who actively and regularly use Wi-Fi, save more than $ 30 a month, compared to if they had used the mobile operators, the study said Macquarie Group.

So, what you really need from your mobile operator?

In Europe, many smartphone owners already that do not generate income to their mobile operators and use Wi-Fi. But in America is no such coverage Wi-Fi users to completely get rid of the need to use mobile phones.

Some users believe (and rightly so) that there is a problem with security when using public Wi-Fi. However, a new generation of hotspots are able to switch between Wi-FI and 4G-LTE and have increased protection. However, according to Macquarie Group, this problem will not be solved even by 2016.

"It will take a few years to most people in the US have begun to even think about how to disconnect from their operator LTE and Wi-Fi internet service from their Internet service providers," said Kevin Smithen, an analyst at Macquarie.

Nevertheless, for the time 4G starts countdown.

Restrictions for 4G are inherent in this technology - licensed spectrum band-limited in that it is impossible to lay too many bits per megahertz. That's why the two largest providers - AT & T and Verizon does not sell unlimited tariffs. Only one third of subscribers of Internet providers know how much they have downloaded traffic through your home Wi-Fi network, but two-thirds of subscribers of mobile operators are monitoring your traffic received through the 3G or 4G.

Internet service providers are already working on an alternative. The largest of them are merged to connect their Wi-Fi network, creating a coating on a national scale. The same thing happens in other countries.
FCC also encourages to open new frequencies for the use of Wi-Fi and cable giants will fight for it.

This is potentially the biggest threat to the big four mobile operators in the United States. Verizon, for example, could start up a quarter of its mobile traffic through the Wi-Fi network by 2018, which will cost him around 1.4 billion. $ Lost revenue. However, Verizon could compensate for the loss of profits if it became a partner online provaderov type Comcast. For example, could sell the last of its use of frequencies when Wi-Fi is not available from Comcas.

Therefore, mobile operators are in the position of the rider in their partnership with ISPs, especially with Comcast. Given the poor working 4G network from Sprint, is that AT & T contacted the U-Verse and Verizon's FiOS has problems, but T-Mobile can win in a fight with the Internet operators (Big Cable), predicts Macquarie.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/245976/