The trial uses the existing Passpoint feature on T-Mobile US handsets to automatically connect to Bright House Networks Wi-Fi hotspots.
Bright House supports 34,000 public hotspots in the Tampa and Orlando areas.
In addition to providing a reliable, secure, in-pocket connection experience in Wi-Fi hotspots, Passpoint supports data offload with instant network detection, selection, and authentication.
That is important for T-Mobile US, and any mobile service provider, as it eases the chores customers have when transitioning to a Wi-Fi hotspot.
In principle, Passpoint would create new facilities support for mobile service providers. Both large mobile providers and large fixed network providers would gain.
Mobile operators would be able to create a more seamless and improved end user experience with the ability to easily offload more mobile network traffic to fixed networks.
Conversely, Passpoint will allow mobile service providers to build mobile services that rely more heavily on Wi-Fi than mobile spectrum to support the business model and operations.
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How mobile "plays nice" with Wi-Fi will be a key theme at the Spectrum Futures conference, Sept. 10 and 11, 2015, in Singapore. Julie Garcia Welch, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Southeast Asia & Pacific, Qualcomm Incorporated, Hong Kong; Johan Adler, VP, Government and Industry Relations, South East Asia and Oceania, Ericsson, Thailand and Heikki Kokkinen, CEO, Co-founder, Fairspectrum, Finland will talk about how that can happen.
Chris Weasler, Global Head of Spectrum Policy & Connectivity Planning, Facebook and Internet.org, USA will talk about how a number of initiatives rapidly will increase Internet access across South Asia and Southeast Asia. (Alternate: Kevin Martin, VP for Mobile and Global Access Policy, Facebook, USA)
I have available a few no-charge (free) passes to the event. Email me at garykim.denver@gmail.com to get one.
Other confirmed speakers will discuss spectrum sharing between LTE operators, spectrum sharing between Wi-Fi and LTE, new access platforms and the critical role spectrum plays for coming 5G networks.
At the same time, the intimate relationship between applications (Internet of Things), core networks (SDN. NFV, cloud computing, fog computing) and all access networks will be examined.
In the coming next generation network, clearly separating spectrum and mobile networks from Wi-Fi and fixed network access, core networks and cloud infrastructure, will be nearly impossible.
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