What is the best island with WiFi access in the world?

Located 608 kilometers west of Morocco and 416 miles north of the Canary Islands, the main island of Madeira, whose name is the same is the island with better access WiFi in the world with 13,000 public access points.

If you want to holiday in a world where you are sure you can connect to the Internet, Madeira is one of the most recommended. The so-called "garden of the Atlantic" has the best WiFi infrastructure in the world located on an island thanks to the network service ZON @ FON. These well-known as "Fonera" allow those who have them, share your wireless network.

This network ZON @ FON offers free access to customers and Madeira in Portugal , where more than 400,000 active access points. If it is from another country, you can also use the access points, but not for free but "with a very low rate," as explained from the Madeira Promotion Association.

Taking into account the population living on the island (not to exceed 270,000 inhabitants), there is an access point for every 20 inhabitants. In Spain one of the most "Fonera" is Madrid's Chueca district.

The public access wifi points are multiplied by four in 2015

The number of points of public Internet access (wifi) is multiplied by four for 2015, to 5.8 million , driven by growing demand for connections to smartphones and tablets. Telecom operators consider these crucial access to download the data traffic, which is expected to grow 26 times over the next five years , according to Cisco, as it increases the use of video on mobile devices.

The study by research firm Informa was performed by the group linked to the telecommunications industry The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). "The results show that we are about to enter the golden age of public wifi with an expected deployment of access," he said in a statement the president of WBA, Chris Bruce.

China Mobile, the world's leading mobile operator by subscribers, study deploy a million wifi access points, while the second largest in Japan, KDDI, poses bring its 10,000 current wireless access point to 100,000 in six months.

"The fixed line operators are extending broadband services beyond the houses and offices, and the wifi is saturated to support mobile broadband networks," said Bruce, who is also responsible for Openzone, BT .