Wi-Fi to top 1Gbps by 2012

From Electronista -

The IEEE has taken the first steps of voting on a major improvement to Wi-Fi due in two years. The 802.11ac standard should upgrade 802.11a to use 80MHz or even 160MHz channels that provide much more bandwidth. Cooupled with about a 10% increase in efficiency for modulating the actual frequencies, the speedup should improve the theoretical transfer speeds to as much as 1Gbps, or more than three times that of 802.11n. As the technology is still in the debate phase, its specifications are likely to change. However, it should become usable as a draft standard by late 2011 and completely approved by December 2012.