WiFi 6 can be seen as 5G’s WLAN counterpart, designed to cater for a vast anticipated increase both in mobile data volumes and use cases, but both have come just too late for most during the global Covid-19 crisis, when they would have made a big difference to user experiences. The timing has been unfortunate for WiFi 6 given the unprecedented contention on many WiFi networks because of the sudden boom in remote collaboration and especially videoconferencing. WiFi has borne a disproportionate share of that load because so much of the activity has taken place indoors and especially in homes. While that has underlined the widespread dependence on WiFi for mobile data indoors it also exposed the great shortcomings of…