Five years ago this week… Vodafone helped drive the creation of Broadband QED, a new WiFi standard designed to unify QoS and QoE metrics for more accurate measurement of network performance. At the time, it was significant because it promised a way to predict application outcomes, prioritize traffic, and feed machine learning models with real-world WiFi data—shifting the focus from raw Mbps to stability and latency. Five years later, there is no evidence that operators have deployed QED into live networks, though Vodafone, Orange, and Telenor have trialed it, along with OEMs such as Kaon Media. 14 Minutes lost searching: Gracenote’s latest data dump shows that the top five SVoD catalogs in the US grew 17% in 2025, while FAST channels…