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5-day event with almost 500 attendees, 25 sponsors and exhibitors, View program and 60 top-notch speakers and panelists from around the world.
• Principal Sponsors @ruckuswireless Round up of the presentation highlights and @CiscoSPMobility New elements at SFO • Premier Sponsors @Ericsson and @devicescape Thursday, 9 October Friday, 10 October • Live NGH Experience connected to San Francisco WBA’s Co-Chairman Chris Bruce from BT opened the second • Associate Sponsors @AMDOCS, @Elitecore, @Aptilo, City Wi-Fi Flavio Aggio from the City & County of San Francisco gave an day with an interesting overview of the UK wireless landscape. overview of the city-wide deployment of Wi-Fi that has 40,000 @BSGWireless, @GlobalReachtech and @iPass He revealed that 7 out of 10 people now feel safer online in • exclusive Executive Dialogue Forum public Wi-Fi connections daily with 2,000-3,000 concurrent. Scotland and the future of Wi-Fi needs to be ‘citizen centric’. • Event Media Partners The Mobile Network, • interactive Strategy Clinics Telecoms.com, Mind Commerce, WiFi360, Miguel Gamiño from the City & County of San Francisco Suraj Shetty from Cisco revealed that the Hyatt Hotel’s food Mobile Experts, Maravedis-Rethink gave an inspiring talk on the city-wide Wi-Fi deployment that and beverage revenue in lobby bar increased by 35% due to has closed the digital divide in the community and provided Wi-Fi being accessible. This was then followed by a Geofence local community groups with wireless connectivity that was Wi-Fi experience in the room highlighting how to personalize previously unavailable. This roll out consists of 3.1 miles of fiber the connectivity experience and potentially generate revenue. along Market St.
Operator attendance Pramasaleh Hario Utomo from Telkom Indonesia gave Dave Fraser from Devicescape revealed that an incredible one a fascinating insight into the challenge of providing Wi-Fi in every two customer-facing businesses in San Francisco offers connectivity in this region of 13,000 islands! This operator amenity Wi-Fi but most of it goes under-utilized! This morning deployed over 2,000 high-density access points for the APAC rounded off with a panel discussion on ‘Beyond NGH’ featuring Arqiva • AT&T • AT&T Foundry • Alaska Wireless Network • BAI • Conference and has rolled out 5,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the Linktel, Telkom Indonesia, Wi-Fi Alliance and Orange. BIGLOBE Inc. • Boingo Wireless • BT • Charter Communications • city of Bandung. China Mobile • China Telecom • China Unicom • Cogeco Cable Canada • Technology partner Rahul Patel from Broadcom hit us with a bold statement about Derek Peterson from Boingo Wireless stated that 91% of those Comcast • Cox Communications • Deutsche Telekom AG • Eircom • Fon • attendance includes the huge explosion of video related data. By 2017, internet surveyed said mobile devices were the object they would least traffic will reach 865 Tbps, the equivalent of 720 million people iPass • KDDI • KT • Liberty Global • Linktel Corporate • Meteor Network • Google, Microsoft, like to lose in life. NetNearU • NTT-DOCOMO • NTT Group • Orange • Telkom Indonesia • NTT Innovation and streaming a high definition video continuously. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. • SaskTel • Shaw Communications • SK Telecom • Stephen Rayment from Ericsson who posed the question Crown Castle, Evan Kaplan from iPass impressed the audience with this fact: of what role will Wi-Fi play in 5G networks? The application SoftBank Mobile • Spark New Zealand • Sprint • TalkTalk • T-Mobile US • there is 1 hotspot for every 150 people on the planet today; and many more… possibilities are endless: automotive, consumer electronics and Telstra • Telus • Telecom Egypt • Time Warner Cable • Towerstream • 50% of them are controlled by brands whose core business retail banking to mention but a few. But, unlicensed spectrum isn’t telecom. Transit Wireless • Verizon Wireless WILL be a key component of 5G networks.
Dr. Hongseok Shin from SK Telecom detailed the amazing Wi-Fi developments that are currently happening in Korea. He Agenda highlights revealed that its users accounted for a massive 55% of the “The conference program entire traffic during MWC 2014. Impressive stuff! contained the speakers you’d hope to see, plus some Thursday, 9 October Friday, 10 October unexpected additions that took • Empowering the Connected Economy & Lifestyle • Wi-Fi’s role in the Connected World the event from good, to great.” AT&T, on WBA’s Wi-Fi Global Congress • Building the Future of Wi-Fi Technology • Successful Wi-Fi Strategies
• Emerging Opportunities from Next Generation • Emerging market opportunities on Wi-Fi Hotspot (NGH) • Driving Innovation Through Wi-Fi Media / Analyst attendance • Evolution of licensed & unlicensed wireless technologies • Business & Innovation streams IDG.com • Epoch Times • NTD TV • • In-depth strategic clinics • Innovative services over Wi-Fi The Information • Gartner • EJL Wireless • Follow Wi-Fi Global Congress • Wi-Fi Industry Award ceremony • NGH / Passpoint Technical Roadmap Current Analysis • Mobile Experts • Ovum • Maravedis LLC • Wireless 20/20 • IBB Consulting • on Twitter #WGCSFO • Wi-Fi Roaming and ICP Goldman, Sachs & Co. • MKM Partners • JMP Securities
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David Nowicki @NowickiDave The first day of the premier WBA SF event is stacked with heavyweights... | WBA – Wireless Broadband Alliance http://www.wballiance.com/wi-fi-global-c ...
Miguel A. Gamiño Jr. @SFCityCIO Speaking at capacity crowd at #WGCSFO on expanding free mobile access to the Internet. #SFWiFi
Dave Wright @wifidave Safe to say that @vijay_sammeta & @SFCityCIO are two of the most popular people at the #WGCSFO. Long queues for both. @WBAlliance Attendance by company type Attendance by job level Jefferson Wang @jeffersonwang13 Wi-Fi Global Congress - fittingly fast download / upload speeds this week during the congress http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3822... #WGCSFO
WBAlliance @WBAlliance Tonight, #WGCSFO attendees experienced ‘#NGH Live’ & seamlessly connected at both Palace Hotel & Fisherman’s wharf
Dave Wright @wifidave The last stop on the #WGCSFO NGH bus tour. @Towerstream network at Fisherman’s Wharf. 30/30 Mbps. @WBAlliance
KS Sangha @kssangha Connected seamlessly via Passpoint #NGH live experience @ #wgcsfo Associations/Regulatory Media Peter Jarich @pnjarich C-level/EVP/VP Director @CiscoSPMobility just “highjacked” the Wi-Fi here at @WBAlliance event – gave Operator/Service Roaming/Solutions Manager Analyst/Media us all @Starbucks and showed how to monetize #WiFi. Sweet! providers providers
Technology providers Other Technical Staff Other Peter Jarich @pnjarich Got to @WBAlliance event at Palace Hotel. Turned on iPAD. Wi-Fi connected automatically. If this is promise of Passpoint in action, I’m in!
Peter Curnow-Ford @Wifiwired Attendance by department Wireless Broadband Alliance Wi-Fi Industry Awards 2014 Winners Announced – http://www.wballiance.com/2014/10/10/wir ...
WiFi Global Congress @WiFiCongress A group photo of last night’s very happy winners. Congratulations again!
WBAlliance @WBAlliance We made the front page!! (Well the magician did that really) :-)
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th WBA, Wi-Fi Alliance and partners WBA’s 4 and demonstrated roaming with seamless largest Live NGH and secure access. experience exposed 20+ carriers showcased NGH the Wi-Fi industry Developments, including devices with The WBA collaborated with Ruckus Wireless For the first time ever, the network also Passpoint R2 capabilities. and Global Reach to host the live NGH network included two outdoor locations in the city to the commercial in the Palace Hotel and the Market Street area of San Francisco where users experienced readiness of Next in the City, with Accuris Networks and BSG live roaming at popular tourist locations – Wireless acting as the main hub providers. a partnership with the City and Towerstream. Generation Hotspot. 1,375 unique users authenticated on the network Operators
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Fisherman’s Wharf [Jefferson St., Taylor St., Mason St., Jones St., Beach St., Columbus Ave]
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Market Street [from the Castro neighborhood to the Embarcadero]
Union Square Palace Hotel
CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO User devices on the network:
Samsung | Apple | Intel | LG | Sony | HTC | Motorola | Data throughput average: Nokia | RIM | Sharp. CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO over 1GB per user
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PCC Mobile Broadband – CABLE-TEC 2014: Wi-Fi, DOCSIS 3.1, dominate cable technology agenda; life left still in HFC
Light Reading – Passpoint Moves Towards Carrier WiFi
MultiChannel News – New Features Make WiFi Behave More Like Cellular
TelecomLead – AT&T Wi-Fi Hub enables telecoms to deliver Wi-Fi roaming
Fierce Wireless – AT&T strikes agreements with Accuris, BSG to deliver Wi-Fi Hub solution
Telecompaper – AT&T, Accuris, BSG collaborate to deliver AT&T Wi-Fi Hub
Wireless Week – FirstNews Briefs: Verizon, Slacker Radio, Boost, Yellowbrick, AT&T
Mobile Enterprise – What is Hotspot 2.0?
PCC Mobile Broadband – The New Wi-Fi Passpoint Makes Carrier Wi-Fi Roaming Easier
Policy Charging Control – Ruckus Wireless Supports the Latest Hotspot 2.0 Passpoint
Wall Street Scope – What’s Hot Today: MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP), Ruckus Wireless (NYSE:RKUS), Quiksilver Inc. (NYSE:ZQK), Western Refining
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