Korea Among World's Top 10 for Wi-Fi Hotspots

Korea Among World's Top 10 for Wi-Fi Hotspots


Korea has the seventh largest number of Wi-Fi locations in the world with 12,814 hotspots as of the first half of this year, a report released on Sunday reveals. 
Wi-Fi hotspots are public areas such as hotel lobbies, airports and cafes where a wireless Internet connection is available for wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) devices. 
In the list compiled by JiWire, a U.S. mobile media company, the U.S. ranked first with 68,059 Wi-Fi hotspots, followed by China, the U.K., France, Russia and Germany.
englishnews@chosun.com / Oct. 26, 2009 09:07 KST
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