If you believe the headlines, there’s a Rocky vs. Apollo Creed battle brewing in the telecom space, wherein operators must decide between 5G and Wi-Fi 6 technology. But the reality is that telecom operators have cause to anticipate and develop plans for utilizing both...
Previously, Wi-Fi failed to work in Mettis’ challenging factory environment
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced the successful completion of its phase one trial of Wi-Fi 6 infrastructure and services with Mettis Aerospace, a U.K. designer and manufacturer of precision-forged, machined and sub-assembled components. The...
WBA CEO: 'Wi-Fi 6 has the potential to unlock many possibilities for academia'
Huawei and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) have announced a new Wi-Fi 6 pilot that the two entities are calling “groundbreaking.” The project, consisting of a series of Wi-Fi 6 verification tests...
As “the big players,” like Apple and Samsung continue to get involved, uptick in Wi-Fi 6 deployment expected
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) Los Angeles last week, RCR Wireless News caught up with the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s recently appointed CEO, Tiago Rodrigues, to discuss the...
The percentage of respondents already planning to deploy Wi-Fi 6 surprised even the WBA's CEO
In the weeks following Wi-Fi Alliance's release of the Wi-Fi Certified 6 certification program, a cross-industry survey conducted by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) showed that a staggering 90% of...
Wireless Broadband Alliance to focus on the convergence of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G and improving Wi-Fi roaming
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has appointed a new CEO: Tiago Rodrigues, who has been with the WBA since 2004. He takes over from former CEO and WBA...
Buildings and transportation use cases are well served by combining unlicensed Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN, according to a new white paper from the two organisations responsible for developing and promoting the technologies.
The Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance have said use cases in the...
WBA and NGMN Alliance: Standardized interface between Wi-Fi and cellular critical for Wi-Fi 6/5G convergence
As Wi-Fi 6 and 5G continue to follow a comparable rollout timeline, many find themselves wondering just what to expect from the two technologies, especially when considered together. 5G implementation...
The WBA highlights the importance of savvy Wi-Fi 6 deployment
Based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi technology, was built in response to the ever-growing number of connected devices worldwide. Wi-Fi 6 was designed to improve speed, capacity, coverage and performance of connected devices, even...
This increasingly variegated platform drives the requirement for coexistence between 5GNR, LTE and unlicensed technologies — close integration at core and even radio level now, and a harmonized migration path both to 5G and future IEEE 802 standards. The two tracks may not converge...
WBA sees Wi-Fi as a major influence on 5G visions being laid out for cellular systems
What will be the role of Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum in a 5G world? The Wireless Broadband Alliance has put out an initial industry assessment on the part that...
City Wi-Fi Roaming initiative includes 38 operators
The Wireless Broadband Alliance is continuing its support for a global Wi-Fi roaming network of public hot spots that has significantly expanded since the WBA launched the project last year.
The City Wi-Fi Roaming project started as a celebration...
The introduction set out a picture of the wireless world, in which many types of spectrum and networks increasingly work together to create a seamless pool of capacity for service providers, enterprises and consumers to use. That may still be a dream, but important...
We tend to take broadband availability and affordability as a given, at least in large cities! That’s not what we found in a recent research we conducted on behalf of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. In fact we found that more than half of world’s...
From airplanes to meeting rooms, cafes to train stations, Wi-Fi is the connectivity option of choice for many mobile users based largely on its low-cost and ubiquity. And today we celebrate with World Wi-Fi Day, a special initiative from the Wireless Broadband Alliance.
The idea...
The Wireless Broadband Alliance is bringing key industry players together to answer those questions at Wireless Global Congress 2016, 27 – 30 June, Liverpool UK
The telecommunications ecosystem is changing quickly as service providers harness the power of big data and the Internet of Things...
The pace of change is accelerating across the public Wi-Fi ecosystem. Last year’s report on the state of the Wi-Fi industry detailed some quite significant shifts, but the contrasts being seen this year are even more dramatic. These are driven by several overall trends:
The increasing shift...