Wi-Fi may have the momentum and applicability to run competing wireless broadband standards out on rails. This may sound boring to the non-propellerhead crowd. Given that, companies producing wireless broadband equipment are quite interested in settling on one, open standard communications protocol used to transmit data over wireless networks to ensure that all their products work together. By avoiding this, European users have international roaming capabilities and significantly deeper penetration rates. Faster technology, meanwhile, means more applicability.
More applicability means more people want to buy it.
And a single standard helps. Pay attention, this could get interesting. Wi-Fi operates on the 2.4 gigahertz frequency, a crowded, unlicensed band shared by microwave ovens and cordless telephones. More importantly, 802.11a is not compatible with current equipment, so changing over would be costly. The FCC, however, has approved a study to consider whether Wi-Fi throughput speed can be increased to 54 mbps.