The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has launched its much-heralded OpenWiFi initiative with ambitions to assemble a global connected ecosystem allowing automated transparent roaming without log-in. There is also a secondary objective to revive heterogenous networking combining WiFi and cellular, which – as we have noted before – has proceeded in fits and starts over the past decade. TIP had done well to generate momentum behind OpenWiFi ahead of the launch through a drip-feed of leaks from members or participants such as AT&T, Boingo, Broadcom, Cisco, CommScope, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Intel and Samsung. All of these have firmly advocated the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA) OpenRoaming standard, which provides the foundation for OpenWiFi. That underpins the federated network structure comprising multiple…