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Wireless Broadband Alliance at a glance…

Founded in 2003, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) works tirelessly to champion the development of a converged wireless broadband ecosystem; through the seamless, secure and interoperable unlicensed wireless broadband services, and enable outstanding user experience for more than 2 billion global subscribers through our member operators.

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We are proud to count many of the world’s leading telecommunications companies amongst our members. Our board includes companies such as AT&T, Intel and China Telecom, while our general membership includes more than 150 companies from more than 30 countries.

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“Meta is excited to be joining the WBA. Our mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected and we are actively developing technologies and promoting policies to make access, adoption, and use of the Internet more available and affordable. We applaud WBA's efforts such as World Wi-Fi Day, its Connected City Forum to support WBA member agendas globally on spectrum, security, privacy and regulatory policies. We look forward to working with WBA members to create a better Internet for all.”

- Meta

“The WBA and the Wireless Global Congress gives members the opportunity to contribute to the organization’s ongoing projects and initiatives, including the concept of ‘Connecting the Unconnected’ in challenging environments such as India and Africa.”

- BT

“Intel aims to shape a better Wi-Fi user experience with the community of leading Wi-Fi operator in WBA. We joined WBA to help develop the business and value-chain for hotspots by leveraging the common roaming specifications developed by WBA.”

- Intel

The WBA is taking on a very active and strong position on setting the agenda for the future, and I think that's exactly what the ecosystem needs right now

- Ruckus Wireless/Commscope

The Wireless Global Congress, as well as the WBA, is really important in driving innovation and driving the standards that are truly going to make the Internet of Things a reality

- AT & T

WBA brings 3G-like experience to Wi-Fi as an integral part of a service provider's radio access network on par with 2G, 3G, and LTE. Members are on equal footing and working together to make Wi-Fi roaming seamless, secure, and interoperable

- Cisco

Because fellow members – who are among the world’s leading hotspot operators – are committed to global Wi-Fi roaming, our WBA membership helps us keep growing the Boingo Roaming Network and sustaining it as the world’s largest of its kind

- Boingo

WBA drives best practices to enable Mobile Data Offloading and carrier class Wi-Fi deployments. We have joined WBA to take an active part in the further development of these best practices.

- ENEA

WBA is a unique ecosystem to facilitate Wi-Fi enabled services through improvements in user experience, interoperability and service delivery across technologies, devices and networks.

- KT

Our Previous Events

SAN JOSE 2016 HIGHLIGHTS

The last Wireless Global Congress of 2016 was undoubtedly a very memorable event. In this video, re-live some of the highlights from speakers, the exhibition floor, and the WBA Industry Awards and Gala Dinner.

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LOOKING BACK TO LIVERPOOL 2016

The first Wireless Global Congress of 2016 took place in beautiful Liverpool, UK, on 27-30 June as part of the International Festival for Business. It was a fantastic global gathering of WBA members, key thought-leaders, and executives from all across the world and wireless ecosystem. Take a look back at our biggest and best Congress yet!

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