Wi-Fi: The APAC View With nearly one-third of the CIOs surveyed saying that they will adopt and implement some form of Wi-Fi in the year ahead, wireless is going mainstream. Taking the APAC view IDC says that the notebook shipments are growing at a rapid pace and so are handhelds—be it mobile phones, PDAs or converged devices. Wireless applications continue to multiply and are converging email, SMS and remote access seamlessly. IDC feels that in 2004, these developments will come together to push mobility beyond the innovators and early adopters in the enterprise as well as the consumer space.

Another force that will drive mobility in the year ahead is the falling notebook prices and Intel’s marketing program that is aggressively pushing the Centrino range of notebooks to the enterprise customers. IDC expects more than 50% of the APEJ region’s notebook shipments in 2004 will include integrated WLAN. IDC also predicts public Wi-Fi hotspots will continue to proliferate, growing by 55% in APEJ from 27,000 in 2003, to almost 42,000 in 2004.

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