The recent spate of announcements from the WiFi community could be interpreted as a defensive reaction to the rapid advance of 5G, especially when they are based on speculative forecasts of future economic impact. There is little doubt that WiFi has been forced to respond, not just in performance but also crucially manageability, which has been an Achilles’ heel for some time that has dogged fixed broadband operators. Efforts to improve manageability have focused not just on WiFi itself but also interworking with cellular and increasingly 5G. This marks a return of the venerable and partially discredited automatic WiFi offload that enjoyed a brief heyday around six years ago and is now being seen as critical for coexistence in many…