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OpenRoaming™ Flyer
WBA OpenRoaming™ creates the framework to connect billions of users and things to millions of Wi-Fi networks globally
OpenRoaming F&B Retail
Coffee shops, cafés, bars and restaurants have long taken advantage of Wi-Fi to enhance their customers’ experience by connecting them to the internet, enabling them to browse menu options, check out offers and building loyalty.
OpenRoaming Retail
Retailers have long taken advantage of Wi-Fi to enhance their customers’ shopping experience by connecting them to the internet, enabling them to browse before making in-store purchases, sending offers and building loyalty as well as adding applications that enable the tracking of footfall and shopping journeys within the stores.
OpenRoaming Carpeted Enterprise
Wi-Fi connectivity and the carpeted enterprise – including corporate offices, serviced offices and other similar environments – go together like strawberries and cream and enterprise employees expect an unplugged office experience. This can be great if you work in that office, but what if you’re visiting from another office or location – can you easily gain access to your company’s systems? If you’re visiting a client, can you easily connect to Wi-Fi?
OpenRoaming Healthcare
Increasingly in our healthcare environments, wireless connectivity is a mission critical service. It serves as a lifeline to friends and family as well as providing access to services and entertainment. At the same time, it provides permanent and locum staff instant access to the systems they need as well as enabling tracking of expensive moveable assets within a healthcare facility and providing connectivity for patient record information exchange.
WBA CTO Innovation Forum
The Innovation Forum is a unique gathering of industry technology leaders with the ambition of shaping the future of the Wi-Fi industry and to accelerate the development of the industry roadmap which will accelerate adoption of world leading Wi-Fi services across carriers, enterprise and consumers.
IMSI Privacy Protection for Wi-Fi
EAP methods are primarily used by wireless carriers and operators who want to take advantage of Wi-Fi capabilities for their SIM subscribers for use cases including licensed mobile radio service; in service-environments such as sports or shopping venues; underground locations; and the overall experience for end-users when Wi-Fi and mobile services are combined for the SIM subscriber’s benefit. Passpoint enables the cellular carrier to offload data by providing a means to have an automated connection to available Wi-Fi providers.
To fill the industry gap, it is important to provide solutions that enable mobile devices to keep their permanent subscriber identity (IMSI) private when using SIM authentication methods.
WBA’s IMSI Privacy Protection for Wi-Fi – Technical Specification document serves as the standardization for seamless, private and secure access for SIM-based devices onto to Wi-Fi. The document provides clear guidelines to ensure that service providers can deploy secure and interoperable Wi-Fi services with confidence.
With the joint collaboration between operators and vendors, the WBA’s Wi-Fi IMSI Privacy Protection project team formulated the best practice on security policy and privacy protection on SIM-based devices as well as developed guidelines and a compliance program to guarantee broad industry deployments and alignment
5G and Wi-Fi RAN Convergence Whitepaper – Executive Summary
Convergence between Wi-Fi and cellular access technologies is critical to the long-term success of 5G. That is according to WBA’s 5G and Wi-Fi RAN Convergence whitepaper, developed with input from mobile carriers, Wi-Fi providers, telecom manufacturers, and its own 5G Working Group.
The report is expanding on the WBA and NGMN RAN convergence whitepaper from 2019 which articulated the potential benefits and use-cases of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G convergence, provides a breakdown of the current standards and key business opportunities for operators with this technology.
Onboarding Evolution
Passpoint introduced seamless, automatic and secure authentication, initiating an important change from password-based networks to a disruptive experience, in which the end-user would simply be connected.
In an effort to support today’s data security trends and simplify roaming solutions, the move to WBA OpenRoamingTM has seen a noticeable increase over the last few months within the Wi-Fi industry. The latest achievement was the launch of WBA OpenRoaming, a global Wi-Fi roaming federation that enables a seamless and secure connection to Wi-Fi among a trusted network of roaming partners.
The whitepaper “Onboarding Evolution – User Engagement in WBA OpenRoaming™ Era” explains the difference between what happens on a network authentication and interconnection level, from the software layer that can be added on top of it. It examines how OpenRoaming and Captive Portal work together on different layers and at different stages of the Wi-Fi onboarding process.
WBA’s previous white paper, “Captive Network Portal Standards” defines some existing use cases, aligns user experience (UX), presents practices to consider and provides suggested guidelines for future features that can be adopted as a unified standard by client devices, client manufacturers and network hardware manufacturers.
