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The 2015 Wi-Fi Global Congress in London was a successful event on all fronts, and one of the most exciting additions to this year’s conference program was the inaugural WBA Accelerator Sessions.

The first Wi-Fi Global Congress of 2015 is in the books, and it was undoubtedly a successful event on all fronts. When all was said and done, over 600 attendees came to London’s Tower Hotel to learn, share, and embrace all things Wi-Fi.

After two days’ worth of informative members working sessions, the conference program of the WBA’s 2015 Wi-Fi Global Congress kicked off yesterday. Over 600 attendees journeyed to the Tower Hotel in London for two days of discussions, presentations, and networking opportunities.

Yesterday (Monday, May 18), the WBA Members Working Sessions kicked off the 2015 Wi-Fi Global Congress. This year, the biannual event has returned to London, England, and is already shaping up to be a very educational and informative experience for everyone in attendance.

With Mobile World Congress a distant memory, the hot topics from the show are still making headlines. Voice over LTE and Wi-Fi are key themes for 2015 but the highest profile topic remains ubiquitous wireless connectivity and how different radio interfaces will combine to provide this.

News has come hard and fast from the major mobile technology event Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, and there has been an ongoing theme – the progress of Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has quite clearly been the technology to watch during the event and for good reasons. The WBA has been active in several ways to convey the

What are Cisco’s VNI research predictions for Wi-Fi? Last week, Cisco released their latest update of the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2014-2019. We have reviewed their report and picked out their main predictions for Wi-Fi.

Voice over Wi-Fi on a huge roll… The recent announcements from Cablevision and FreedomPop demonstrate a continuing interest in the development and launch of Voice over Wi-Fi services. Both developments – again – highlight the many use and business cases for Wi-Fi and provide yet another example of monetization being top of the agenda for

This Week in Wi-Fi… Recently it was widely reported that Marriott International had been jamming its US customers’ Wi-Fi services within the conference and meeting facilities of their hotel. While the case raised a number of interesting issues, the underlying question is one of making the business model for Wi-Fi provision stack-up for venue providers.

Today, the WBA published its report on the Wi-Fi hotspot market compiled by global research company Maravedis-Rethink. The annual survey revealed that 70% of respondents said a key motivation for deploying carrier-grade Wi-Fi in their systems would be to improve customer experience and therefore increase subscriber retention. In addition, 41% cited this as the single