WBA Press releases

Use Cases including Smart Home, Smart City, Building Automation, Smart Retail, Industrial IoT, and Agriculture Technology demonstrate how Wi-Fi HaLow addresses a wide range of IoT applications  London, UK, January 25, 2024 — The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the global organization that connects people with the latest Wi-Fi initiatives, has today announced that its “Wi-Fi

San Jose, CA – December 8, 2023 – Allied Telesis is pleased to announce that its advanced Wi-Fi 6 Access Points (APs) have been proven to interoperate with OpenRoaming™ – an exciting technology that makes it easy to connect to over 3.5 million public hotspots worldwide. OpenRoaming is an international public wireless LAN connection standard

London, UK, December 7th, 2023 — Following the release of the WBA Annual Industry Report 2024, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), has revealed ten predictions for 2024 and beyond that he believes will change the way wireless technology is used by communities and businesses across the world, including improved connectivity, efficiencies

Latest WBA cross-industry report also shows major investment in OpenRoaming and city-wide Wi-Fi planned for the next 12 months as the global hotspot total surpasses half a billion  London, UK, November 29th, 2023 — Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7 top the list of wireless technologies that network operators, ISPs, device and chipset vendors, enterprises and

London, UK, October 26, 2023 — The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the winners of its 11th WBA Industry Awards, which honors the most significant innovations and achievements from across the Wi-Fi ecosystem. The award winners were announced during the WBA’s Wireless Global Congress, which is taking place at Porte de Versailles in Paris

Theater Audiences Can Now Access Free Secure, High-Performance Wi-Fi at Teatro Gazeta in São Paulo, Deployed by TecExpert Brasil London, UK, October 25, 2023 — The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced that systems integrator TecExpert Brasil has introduced OpenRoaming™ Wi-Fi hotspots at Teatro Gazeta in the heart of São Paulo’s cultural district. Ranked as

White Paper Sets Out Options for Enabling E2E QoS for Applications Such as Streaming Video, Multiplayer Gaming and Videoconferencing London, UK, October 12, 2023 — The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the public release of E2E QoS Improvement: Optimizing QoS Over Wi-Fi , a white paper that explores how network operators can meet the

Wi-Fi 7 will enable consumer, enterprise, Industry 4.0, medical, smart city and other applications that are impractical or impossible with other wired and wireless technologies, providing twice the bandwidth and three times the speed of Wi-Fi 6, deterministic network support, and more London, UK, September 12, 2023 — The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced

Report proposes an interoperable reference architecture for operators' managed Wi-Fi deployment, operation, remote management and diagnostics of home networks. London, UK, May 24, 2023: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the publication of a technical report outlining a new operator-managed Wi-Fi (OMWi) reference architecture. The proposed framework will combine multiple available standards to streamline

New WBA paper highlights the needs and use cases for Wi-Fi 6 and private 5G (P5G) as a fundamental part of an organization’s converged, access-agnostic connectivity portfolio. London, UK, May 3rd, 2023: The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced the publication of a detailed report on the importance of 5G and Wi-Fi convergence in the