It is rare that two sworn WiFi technology enemies, such as Broadcom and Quantenna go ahead and license the same technology, but this week Quantenna put out a release which read pretty much the same as one Broadcom put out a few months back, namely that it has licensed the AirTies mesh for operators. It seems a small enough announcement, but what lurks behind this is a fundamental change to the way WiFi is being installed in homes by broadband operators, and at the heart of that change is likely to be a contract at one of the largest US operators or even more than one. The answer is not in the current customer list of AirTies – which in…