At Anga Com Digital 2021, the virtual edition of the German broadband event, a debate erupted among a panel of WiFi companies – Airties, AVM and Icotera – about the future of WiFi access points and extenders. Airties’ CTO Metin Taskin naturally argues that APs are here to stay and will not become obsolete as a result of more technologically advanced WiFi router generations. Meanwhile, Icotera’s Volker Bendzuweit, a general manager at the Danish gateway manufacturer, took great pleasure in pointing to results of a recent business case worked up with Telenor in Sweden, based on the concept of reducing the proportion of customer installations using APs from 50% to 20%, which he all-but confirmed had been successfully achieved. Taskin…