With the AT&T
Wi-Fi network continuing to scale and consumers making record a record number
of Wi-Fi connections, Wireless Week honored AT&T with an industry
leadership award for its Wi-Fi strategy, innovation and growth at their 15th
Annual Leadership Awards ceremony Tuesday, May 8 at CTIA
in New Orleans.
Wireless Week also recognized AT&T for its record number
of connections and network traffic made on the AT&T Wi-Fi network, which
continued to grow
in the first quarter of 2012:
- 626.4 million AT&T Wi-Fi connections made in the first quarter of 2012, more than half of the 1.2 billion connections made in all of 2011.
- Quadrupled monthly Wi-Fi data uploads from mobile devices in first quarter 2012 versus first quarter 2011
- Tripled AT&T Wi-Fi network traffic in first quarter 2012 versus network traffic for first quarter 2011.
- More than 79 connections per second made to more than 30,000 AT&T operated Wi-Fi Hot Spots.
