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“In 20 years of working in wireless, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said David Witkowski (President of WCA) on Wi-Fi NOW TV just 2 weeks ago. Yes, never has one wireless industry been pitted against another like this before. The battle lines are clearly drawn: Big carriers & telco vendors on the LTE-U side (Qualcomm, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, […]

The biggest single Wi-Fi footprint ever seen? It probably is – at least in the West. Devicescape and iPass – two Wi-Fi service providers with complementary approaches to aggregating hostpots – have teamed up and the result is 50 million hotspots across the world. Devicescape and iPass will each contribute 20 million hotspots and the final 10 million will […]

Wi-Fi is already taking a lot of traffic away from cellular these days – and by the looks of it, it’s only going to accelerate from here. Here are a bunch of features I’ve picked up on in recent weeks: If you’re going to get mobile & Wi-Fi to work together – seamlessly and transparently […]

How many people out there are genuinely excited about what they do and whom they work for? Not many. I would think a few percent. But here’s the thing: Excitement works. Not just because it’s more fun. It creates value. It’s also scarce. It makes you and your company stand out. This is not a new thing but here’s what all […]

I don’t have time to write a full post here – just to point out that this week seems to be another big week for public Wi-Fi in the USA: It’s been leaked that T-Mo USA is likely to enter into a partnership with Bright House (mostly Florida) for Wi-Fi roaming (call it offload if you like) based […]

This message is to rectify any confusion arising from Hansecom Media & Communication’s (of Porto, Portugal) use of the Wi-Fi Innovation Summit (WIS) brand and logo for future events including a purported event in Amsterdam this fall: Hansecom & HETTING ApS decided to part ways in June of this year for business reasons in that […]

If you follow the tech news right now it’s hard to get around constant mention of IoT and Smart Cities. As a Wi-Fi entrepreneur and marketing veteran, here’s what bugs be about it: I can’t find a single real case. And by ‘real case’ I mean something – anything, however small – that’s generating profit on commercial terms. Or […]

Carriers and some big vendors – like our sponsor Qualcomm – are eyeing the unlicensed (Wi-Fi) bands as they start feeling the capacity crunch. And it’s understandable that 600 MHz of ‘free spectrum’ looks like an attractive asset. And it is. Right now, Wi-Fi is delivering some 80% of the traffic that runs on smartphone […]

Wi-Fi standards have increased in raw bit rate 7,000 times in only 15 years. It’s a remarkable result and one of the big  reasons why Wi-Fi is so popular around the world. We believe that this is only the beginning. A host of entrepreneurs all over the world understand that unlicensed wireless is the perfect […]