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WHISHER.COM

Product Name

WHISHER

Market Segment

Consumer

Funding

Privately funded

Competitors

Google WiFi, Boingo, FON

Product Description

WHISHER gives consumers an extremely simple-to-use software application that instantly aggregates all WiFi networks into one, free global wireless community—without requiring new hardware or equipment.

Market Opportunity

The last five years have seen an explosion in the adoption of WiFi. The convenience of such a cheap technology together with its ease-of-use has led to near ubiquitous WiFi signals and WiFi-enabled devices. There have been several initiatives aimed at offering free WiFi services within select regions, including Google’s WiFi network and various municipal wireless projects in the United States and abroad. Yet, all suffer from scalability problems, economic inefficiency and difficulties in assuring a minimum quality of service to the end users.

Demo Says

The WiFi blanket presents countless opportunities for clever and innovative applications. WHISHER delivers both through software utilities that support easy connections and hardware that provides new communications capabilities. It’s all part of a bigger vision of a collective connectivity consortium of consumers and businesses leveraging WiFi to provide easy, universal network access. WHISHER is at the vanguard of this innovation.