Tradeshows are a great place to jump the gun on technological developments and Mobile World Congress 2023 seems to be no different this year. Vendors are flexing that they’ve jumped to the next WiFi standard while their peers are playing catch-up with the current one. However, this does not mean much for the present day. Most end users have no idea which WiFi standard their CPE is running on, and the huge advances in throughput are very much a pre-emptive strike at future bandwidth consumption once web3 applications become mainstream. While important, we cannot help but feel that many of the announcements are going to have little impact on the ground for the next few years. For instance, Xiaomi…