WBA Blog

The upcoming Wireless Global Congress in Orlando - taking place on 11 - 14 June, 2018 - will see dozens of speakers from all corners of the wireless ecosystem take the stage. One such speaker will be Bill McCorey of Universal Parks and Resorts. We sat down with Bill and asked him a few brief

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.

The Wireless Broadband Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of the Carrier Wireless Services Certification (CWSC) program aimed at Network Operators and equipment/infrastructure Vendors . The program will simulate end customer usability in a real network environment to ensure that devices are ready for worldwide commercial deployments, reducing customer support time for carriers and

A research work by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens from the research group of KU Leuven university has identified and published a new security issue associated with Wi-Fi WPA2 encryption mechanisms, for this the researchers developed a specific method to perform a series of tests, described on the following website. Major industry players have already