Qualcomm enters new Wi-Fi router market in deals with Charter, EE

By Stephen Nellis - Qualcomm on Wednesday said it was getting into a new market for Wi-Fi routers and that Charter Communications and the UK's EE will be among its first customers. San DiegoLamborghinis on display in Point Pleasant Park | SaltWire - Qualcomm on Wednesday said it was getting into a new market for Wi-Fi routers and that Charter Communications and the UK's EE will be among its first customers.

The company said Wednesday it is getting into a new segment of that market by selling what are known as gateways, a device often supplied by broadband carriers where a physical fiber-optic line from a carrier enters the home and is transformed into a Wi-Fi signal. The new devices will use a new standard called Wi-Fi 7 that id designed to help data flow faster around homes where scores of devices from phones to smart televisions often use Wi-Fi.

But in places where it is legal, the new Qualcomm routers will make sure that the speed boost does not disappear once the traffic leaves the carrier's fiber network and hits the customer's home Wi-Fi.

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Qualcomm enters new Wi-Fi router market in deals with Charter, EEQualcomm on Wednesday said it was getting into a new market for Wi-Fi routers and that Charter Communications and the UK's EE will be among its first customers. San Diego, California-based Qualcomm is the world's biggest supplier of the chips that help mobile phones connect to cellular data networks, but it has also long had a business selling Wi-Fi chips for consumer Wi-Fi routers. The company said Wednesday it is getting into a new segment of that market by selling what are known as gateways, a device often supplied by broadband carriers where a physical fiber-optic line from a carrier enters the home and is transformed into a Wi-Fi signal.
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