Devicescape’s crowdsourced Wi-Fi network grows to 20M hotspots

Devicescape now has 20 million Wi-Fi access points in its global virtual network -- likely including some of yours.

The company has built its business model off of other people’s broadband, tapping into the vast number of Wi-Fi nodes that homes, businesses and governments leave open for the public to use. Considering the company had 12 million access points at this time in 2013, its growth rate is impressive. Devicescape estimates by 2017 its network will surpass the 100 million node mark. Consequently, Devicescape’s network is strongest in the US where 19 million of its 20 million hotspots reside. In San Francisco alone Devicescape has 30,000 hotspots, making it one of the biggest wireless data networks in the Bay Area.