There has been a lot of activity in the WiFi camp lately to defend the technology against 5G in the IoT arena, with the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and WiFi Alliance (WFA) both unveiling new documents this month. Such actions can be counter-productive by drawing attention to the threat from 5G and even exposing why cellular services – which have only quite recently come on the radar for many enterprise applications – may be needed at all. There is no doubt that some emerging IoT scenarios, particularly public arenas and Industrial IoT, have pitched the two sets of standards against each other. WiFi is often seen as the default option because it has already been deployed for general enterprise productivity,…