Providing public Wi-Fi across villages, towns and cities, connecting the unconnected and enabling residents, students and visitors access to the internet can provide life enhancing opportunities, improving access to education and personal development and providing the necessary drivers for economic growth by bridging the digital divide. This is as true in developed societies in Europe
New WBA member LEVL focuses on device identity. It offers a privacy-friendly method of device identity as a replacement for the MAC address. Device identity is used for a variety of network services and also enhances Wi-Fi sensing and authentication. Learn more about LEVL by visiting their official website. We recently had the opportunity to
A Wi-Fi automatic connection via SIM authentication in Trafalgar Square London, UK, 3rd December 2020 – Mobile customers of US-based operator AT&T (NYSE:T) are now able to seamlessly connect in London’s iconic Trafalgar Square, with the launch of a new ultra-fast Passpoint Wi-Fi network from next-generation wireless infrastructure-as-a-service provider Ontix. Launched in early 2020, the
OpenRoaming now offers the highest security currently available on a public Wi-Fi network London, 3 December 2020 – The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has today announced that users of its new OpenRoaming™ service will be granted enterprise-level security thanks to a partnership with infrastructure security experts, Kyrio®. The WBA OpenRoaming Service, which removes the barriers
ようこそ、日本初の OpenRoaming™ へ！ Welcome to the first OpenRoaming™ in Japan! Cityroam is an independent roaming federation and also a member of WBA OpenRoaming™. Cityroam and eduroam are ready to provide OpenRoaming services across Japan. Cityroam has completed the trial of OpenRoaming in October and deployed the services at various places throughout
London [19th November, 2020]: According to a Wireless Broadband Alliance cross-industry survey of service providers, equipment manufacturers and enterprises, almost four out of five (79%) have adopted or plan to adopt the WBA OpenRoaming standard. As the Wi-Fi roaming standard was only introduced in late May 2020, this demonstrates a very rapid and widespread
Fremont, CA – November 17, 2020 – Selecting an intelligent multi-radio strategy is becoming increasingly important to succeed in a connected world, as illustrated in a new whitepaper released today by the LoRa Alliance® and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). The paper, “Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN® Trials - An Overview of Use Cases Across Regions Combining Two Technologies” provides
Wi-Fi 6 proven to deliver nearly three times faster gigabit data rates than Wi-Fi 5, significantly higher throughput and lower latency Trials covered key vertical Wi-Fi 6 deployment scenarios and use cases Additional benefits established when Wi-Fi 6 clients are deployed across earlier generations of Wi-Fi London, 12th November 2020: Wireless Broadband Alliance
Huawei announced that it has won the "Best Enterprise Wi-Fi Network Award" at the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Wi-Fi Industry Awards 2020 held during the WBA-organized Wireless Global Congress (WGC) event. This award has been bestowed upon Huawei's AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 solution for enabling digital transformation of manufacturing factories. Never before has this award been
LONDON, 4 NOVEMBER 2020 – GlobalReach Technology, the leader in seamless Passpoint authentication and a specialist in secure identity and access management, has today launched a new hosted and managed service to allow any enterprise providing a Wi-Fi service to easily generate Passpoint user credentials. It will allow brands and organisations to give their customers and
