A comprehensive new study on WiFi was released today by iPass, the business travellers WiFi specialist, which shows that there will be a massive 340 million working hotspots by 2018, growing from just 47.7 million at the end of 2014. This is the first piece of research that has included community hotspots, sometimes called Homespots, which use a second SSID (secure identity) to allow a hotspot to be delivered from existing home gateways. In the 35 countries that this study took in there are around 547 million broadband lines, with 326 million which have operator WiFi supplied on them which are powerful enough to run two SSIDs, with more being added every year. The report was conducted with the help…