Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has become a major cheerleader for private networks, as it continues its focus on unified enterprise connectivity, bringing together 5G and WiFi. The objective is now coexistence rather than full throated convergence, which remains on the distant horizon – even if standards bodies continue to foster closer alignment. Progress has been glacial, with various false dawns, given that it is now 16 years since the 3GPP embarked on its WiFi convergence trail with Release 8. This introduced the Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF), which allowed user equipment such as smartphones and tablets to discover non-3GPP access networks, with WiFi mostly in mind. This enabled users to access WiFi more readily when in public places…