Report: 86% of In-Home Broadband Usage Will Be on Wi-Fi By 2017

In a new study, wireless and mobile communications market strategy consultancy iGR forecasts that Wi-Fi devices will account for 86% of broadband data use in U.S. households in 2017.

In-home data, in turn, will drive growing data usage outside the home, a matter of interest and importance for wireless and mobile industry participants across the value chain, iGR notes. “In-home data usage is a precursor to outside-the-home usage. If a user gets accustomed to streaming music over an in-home cable / Wi-Fi network, then that same user is likely to stream their music when they step outside the home,” said iGR founder and president Iain Gillott.