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AT&T's Wi-Fi Stats - Wi-Fi Networking News

That's a neat trick by AT&T to offload 3G data to a Wi-Fi network, reducing congestion in the intersection of heavy availability of Wi-Fi hotspots and heavy 3G usage--city and neighborhood centers.

AT&T processed 26 million Wi-Fi connections in the first half of 2009. That's 30% higher than the number of connections they saw in all of 2008. Wi-Fi is indeed a growth business.

Glenn Fleishman @WiFiNetNews was one of the first to develop the idea that Wi-Fi is complementary to 3G, even providing a "heat sink" that could help carriers offload data traffic from overtaxed cellular towers. Looks like AT&T has fully caught on.

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