WiFi Technologies

According to estimation in 2004, half of all computer notebooks sold worldwide will be Wi Fi capable. And by the year 2008, the total is expected to reach 93%. Although lagging a bit behind PCs, the same thing is happening with personal digital assistants, or PDAs -- 50% of handhelds should be Wi Fi enabled by 2006, according to the estimation, up from 3% in 2002. It also figures all the Wi Fi enabled hardware will drive up the number of paying hot spot customers to 5.5 million in 2006, from an estimated 24,000 last year.

As the cost of WiFi enabling is slashing day-to-day it is being more popularized. In the years ahead, WiFi will become a universal standard, found everywhere in the electronics world. It will show up in consumer electronics devices, from videogame consoles to music players.

Though, the cost of voice communication through VoIP is cheap, yet VoIP has many drawbacks. Its low-quality-voice is one of the main drawbacks. As the voice data travel in the form of packets, some of them get lost while in transmission and VoIP phone service becomes low quality.

Cell phones will have it, as will PDAs and digital cameras. Any PC bought in a year or so will instantly become the hub of a wireless network, simply by turning it on. The numbers will quickly reach true mass-market levels: an estimated 99 million people with WiFi by 2006.