At the Wi-Fi Global Congress held in San Francisco the first week of November, we were very proud of our record attendance and of our membership expansion. That expansion continues with our announcement of 14 new, major operators and vendors who have joined the WBA!
Our new members include Alvarion, AlwaysOn, BandwidthX, BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services), Crown Castle, Front Porch, Huawei Technologies, Hutchison Global Communications, NTT Broadband Platform, Netgem, Quadriga Worldwide, Sysnet Integrators and Towerstream, bringing WBA membership to 95.
They join us at a time when public Wi-Fi is starting to realize its full potential, particularly through WBA initiatives such as Next Generation Hotspots (NGH) and Wi-Fi roaming. There was much activity at the Wi-Fi Global Congress on the progress of these initiatives driven by the membership’s work around interoperability and collaboration
The WBA’s commitment in conducting Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) trials that will allow SIM and non-SIM based mobile devices, such as phones, notebooks and tablets, to simply roam on to Wi-Fi hotspots without the need for usernames and passwords, has many of the world’s largest operators and vendors participating now including AT&T, BT, Orange, NTT DOCOMO, China Mobile, Cisco, LG, Intel and Ericsson.
The WBA currently includes a mix of leading Wi-Fi, mobile and broadband network operators and media players from across the Americas, Europe & Asia Pacific and the latest wave of new members join existing members which include major fixed operators such as BT, Comcast and Time Warner Cable; seven of the top 10 mobile operator groups (by revenue) as well as leading technology companies such as Cisco, Google and Intel.
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