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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 12 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Figure 10 - Wi-Fi market value (Source: Wi-Fi Alliance) Based on the WBA Annual Industry Report 2019 [1], Wi-Fi technology has strong perspectives of growth in the next years: • Wi-Fi growth continues unabated, 9 billion Wi-Fi devices in use and 3 billion devices shipped every year (Wi-Fi Alliance). • The introduction of 5G will not affect the prominence of Wi-Fi: Cisco VNI predicts that Wi-Fi as a percentage of global IP traffic will grow from 41% in 2016 to 46% in 2021. • Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) and Passpoint ® are seeing an adoption breakthrough, with operators such as AT&T, Charter, Boingo Wireless, Softbank, Sprint and T-Mobile, strengthening their commitment to these technologies to ensure seamless and safe connectivity for their subscribers when they visit their partners' Wi-Fi networks. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Americas in San Francisco in 2017, attendees used Passpoint ® for 65% of Wi-Fi connections. • Wi-Fi 6, the next-generation Wi-Fi technology based on IEEE 802.11ax, is coming soon. We already have pre-standard equipment and limited commercial deployments and we expect wider commercial availability in 2019 and final standard specifications by Q4 2019, with the timeline for Wi-Fi 6 slightly ahead of that for 5G New Radio (NR). The two technologies complement each other and are both necessary to realize the ITU's IMT-2020 vision of a pervasive connectivity fabric that reaches both people and things.