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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 52 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 13 Summary Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® are two of the most-adopted unlicensed technologies and together they address a large percentage of IoT use cases. The approaches for these technologies are disrupting private-public business models and also enabling participation in 5G rollouts. As mentioned in the Introduction, our purpose in writing this white paper was to demonstrate how the Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® technologies are complementary in nature, summarize the technical aspects of each and provide real world use cases and testimonials. Our goal was to inspire network operators who have deployed either Wi-Fi or LoRaWAN to consider to extend their offerings by deploying the other technology OR to give an existing operator who has deployed both technologies new ideas for how to future leverage their capabilities to support new use cases. I want to thoroughly thank and congratulate the 25 companies of both Alliances (listed in the paper) from all regions, contributing and bringing an incredible meaningful and insightful content. Americas, Europe and Asia are represented with companies representing all types of market actors. I also want to thank Jaap Groot (Semtech), WBA IoT Work group vice chair, Dan Klaeren (Syniverse), WBA IoT Work group chair and white paper co-project leader, as well as Steve Dyett (BT), white paper co- projects leaders. It has been an outstanding journey during at least one year, and we hope that it will help to accelerate IoT adoption.