With the ink barely dry on its merger with the SCTE-ISBE (see Wireless Watch December 22 2020), the US cable industry’s R&D arm CableLabs is heading into 2021 with a focus on mobile networks, having launched a new feature called Intelligent Wireless Network Steering (IWiNS) to improve the way mobile devices switch between WiFi, LTE and CBRS networks. Cross-network steering has been one of the banes of existence for mobile end users, device makers and network operators alike for years, and with WiFi usage in particular shooting off the charts with home working and home schooling, CableLabs has chosen an important time to release IWiNS. CableLabs’ argument is why, in this day and age, does switching between WiFi and cellular…