Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint standard to provide automatic hotspot login | The Verge
Sam Byford, reporting for The Verge:
While [Wi-Fi] theoretically saves battery life, speeds up downloads, and eases network congestion, it’s often too much of a hassle to find an access point and log in — especially when you’re on the move. The Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint standard is aiming to solve that …
This is a great solution to a very obvious problem. In the UK, many phone carriers offer free unlimited Wi-Fi with their contracts, but I’ve yet to see this feature being taken advantage of. As the article points out, it’s a hassle to connect to these Wi-Fi hotspots and if this standards takes off, it would make things so much easier.
