A Reporter Asserts a Wi-Fi Only Cellphone Is Doable

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Ryan Knutson, Who Needs a Wireless Carrier? Go Wi-Fi Only. Wall Street Journal, Mar 2, 2015.
www.wsj.com/articles/do-you-real ... -carrier-1425077991

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read it, about an owner of a smartphone dropping a wireless carrier and relying exclusively on Wi-Fi.
(b) View only the graphic (at the bottom):

“Connecting the Spots[;] Wi-Fi hotspots per 100,000 people in 2014[:] France 19,755; Israel 5,518; US 3,091; Japan 2,599; South Korea 951; Brazil 816; China 362; Rusia 111; Mexico 84. Source: iPass (hotspots); Census (population)”

In print but not online, “in 2014” is inserted in the subtitle of the graphic.
(c) Two years ago I bought a Wi-Fi only tablet, and found free hotspots in Boston were few and between. Supposedly I could have walked into a fast food store and used its Wi-Fi, but I felt it would be odd standing there doing computing but buying nothing.