By Tiago Rodrigues, General Manager of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) This year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona a group of companies, many of them members of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) together with GSMA, Fira Barcelona and City of Barcelona developed a pilot on Wi-Fi Roaming across a series of hotspots in Barcelona
This blog was submitted for publication by iPass. By now, I don’t know how many times you’ve heard it. Data is growing exponentially, with no end in sight. One of the main contributing factors: consumer video use. The challenge has been clear for some time now, how do we accommodate the resulting, increased demand for
In September 2017, Cisco, alongside the GSMA, WBA, Boingo Wireless, Accuris Networks, and BSG Wireless working together with key operators brought a record-setting Next Generation Hotstpot (NGH) deployment to the inaugural MWC Americas event. More than 60% of attendees’ Wi-Fi connections were automatically authenticated through NGH – in short, the deployment was very successful!
Owen Geddes VP Market Development, Devicescape "Giving any access point the ability to function as a beacon allows for in-venue engagement and measurement which is not dependent on the consumer logging-in or connecting to venue Wi-Fi. The result is far wider consumer reach across a huge footprint of locations." - Owen
With only 3 weeks until Mobile World Congress 2018 in the beautiful city of Barcelona, here at the WBA we are reflecting on the inflection point of the wireless world as we grow ever closer to 5G. In the 4th industrial revolution the story moves beyond connecting people and digital empowerment to the connecting billions
This year’s WBA Annual Industry Report commissioned from Maravedis comes at a highly significant time for the wireless ecosystem with the vision of a unified wireless ecosystem around the concept of 5G. As user demands for fast, reliable, affordable wireless data continue to rise, service providers are also considering how to expand and transform their
Florin Baboescu Scientist, Senior Principal Broadcom “The new 5G System (5GS) gives an opportunity for operators to extend their services.” Florin Baboescu , Scientist, Senior Principal Broadcom As the Co-Chair of the 5G project group, I believe the new 5G System (5GS) gives an opportunity for operators to
Mark Grayson Distinguished Engineer, CTO Team, Cisco “5G is following Wi-Fi in its evolution” Mark Grayson, Distinguished Engineer, CTO Team, Cisco Nowadays, It is obviously much of the attention has been around spectrum specifics, but 5G’s embracing of an EAP based authentication framework and its broadening of identity concepts
The shortlist for the sixth annual WBA Industry Awards has been announced and can be viewed in full here. Bringing together leading players in the Wi-Fi Industry, it includes some of the most exceptional – and best practice – networks, smart cities and remote wireless deployments from operators and technology vendors across the globe.
