Telecom New Zealand, which has been in the process of transforming selected public phone boxes into Wi-Fi hotspots, will have 700 of them live by October 7, with 2000 hotspots expected to be live by mid 2014.
Different handheld mobile devices show a wide range of behaviors on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wi-fi.html">Wi-Fi</a> networks. Differences can be traced to assorted radio chipsets, the way drivers are written, the frequencies supported and the number of antennas used, to name just a few variables.