Operators

Network operators around the globe are deploying Wi-Fi® in business models tailored to fit their unique needs. Wi-Fi performance and ubiquity have created an opportunity for operators to utilize Wi-Fi to improve their network offerings in and outside the home. Wi-Fi is being used to improve coverage, offload data traffic, increase network density, reach consumers with paid content outside the home, increase loyalty, and reduce roaming costs.
The Wi-Fi industry is responding to the breadth of need with a tremendous level of innovation. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™ and Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® offer an ongoing evolution of Wi-Fi to enhance operator networks, providing better performance, mobility, and user experiences.
Wi-Fi brings unique characteristics and a roadmap of advancements that offer many benefits for operators and IT managers, such as better resource management and the ability to influence client roaming behavior in their managed networks. Already a power tool to increase capacity, the roadmap of continued enhancements under development will ensure that Wi-Fi technology continues to drive opportunity.
With strong representation from operators, equipment makers, and consumer electronics makers in the organization, the Wi-Fi Alliance® collaboration forum is uniquely suited to bring about technology innovations that meet operator requirements. To ensure alignment and deliver the most valuable programs across the operator ecosystem, Wi-Fi Alliance has liaison agreements with other operator-focused organizations including CTIA™, GSM Association, Wireless Broadband Alliance, and CableLabs®.
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Wi-Fi Alliance members continually develop enhancements to Wi-Fi that bring strategic importance to operator networks. Numerous operators from around the world participate in Wi-Fi Alliance to help shape our technologies and certification programs with the unique needs of service providers in mind. Learn more about Wi-Fi Alliance membership or contact us.
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- Carrier Wi-Fi®: A futureproof approach to expanded Wi-Fi public access (2013)
- Carrier Wi-Fi® for mobile operators: The economics of Wi-Fi small cells (2013)
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint™: An essential and strategic solution for service provider Wi-Fi® deployments (2014)
- Easy-to-Use Wi-Fi: Opportunities for Service Providers
- Wi-Fi and cellular integration: From Wi-Fi offload to HetNets (2014)
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® Deployment Guidelines
- Wi-Fi® calling in the spotlight: Consumer, enterprise, and service provider benefits (2015)
- Hotspot 2.0 Specification Package (Passpoint Release 2)
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™ Highlights
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Optimized Connectivity™ Technology Overview (2020)
- Optimized Connectivity Experience Technical Specification
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Optimized Connectivity™ Highlights
- Passpoint Specification Package (Release 3)
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® Highlights
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint® Technology Overview (2019)
- Infographic - Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint®
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™ Field Trial Highlights
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™ Technology Overview (2020)
- Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Vantage™: Enhancing the managed Wi-Fi® network experience (2020)
- COVID-19 and the Economic Value of Wi-Fi® (2020)
- Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity Specification