Wi-Fi has become the preferred means for connecting to the internet - at home,
in the office, in hotels and at airports. Increasingly, Wi-Fi also provides
internet access for remote communities where it is deployed by volunteers in
community-based networks, by operators in 'hotspots' and by municipalities in
'hotzones'. This book traces the global success of Wi-Fi to the landmark
change in radio spectrum policy by the US FCC in 1985, the initiative by NCR
Corporation to start development of Wireless-LANs and the drive for an open
standard IEEE 802.11, released in 1997. It also singles out and explains the
significance of the initiative by Steve Jobs at Apple to include Wireless-LAN
in the iBook, which moved the product from the early adopters to the mass
market. The book explains these developments through first-hand accounts by
industry practitioners and concludes with reflections and implications for
government policy and firm strategy.

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