A blog at CableLabs from its principal architect, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, makes it abundantly clear that US MNOs are planning to hijack WiFi spectrum, and effectively act as a block on WiFi performance. The main accusations are that LTE-U is being developed outside of international standards for the US market, and no WiFi entity is being invited to join the process. Instead it is a club run by Verizon, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, LG Electronics, Qualcomm, and Samsung – all dependent upon reducing the influence of WiFi, and promoting LTE. But she says that the alternative LTE-LAA could end up going down the right track, not only incorporating “listen before talk” (LBT) but likely to be convinced to do it in a manner…