The WiFi Alliance had a lot to prove at MWC, in danger of being overshadowed by the abundance of 5G and IoT technologies spanning broad industry applications being showcased in Barcelona this week. The non-profit organization was reminding the mobile industry that everyone’s preferred network technology has been handling the seemingly futuristic use cases on show, in some way or another, for years – and it is not about to lie down and die. The WiFi Alliance is partly responsible for forging a future in which WiFi vendors can thrive and President and CEO Edgar Figueroa pleaded that the development of high level standards should not halt innovation within the vendor community. “We can standardize as far as we can,…