Hotspot 2.0 has been described as the key technology to turn WiFi into a truly carrier-grade platform, which can be integrated seamlessly with cellular networks and able to support secure authentication for huge numbers of users or ‘things’. Yet the WiFi Alliance’s device-based technology – together with its partner on the infrastructure side, the WBA’s Next Generation Hotspot – have not gained mass adoption as quickly as many had expected. There have been a few flagship deployments, many in the US, by organizations like Boingo. But for Hotspot 2.0 to have its full effect – streamlining the user experience to drive usage, while improving the quality and manageability of connections for the operators – it needs to be pervasive. Operators…