Wi-Fi’s Reality Check: What’s Really Limiting Performance Today

Описание: The Future of Wi-Fi: Tiago Rodrigues on Coverage, Latency, 6 GHz, and the Role of Wi-Fi in the Digital Economy

Welcome back to Unmuted, where host Catherine Sbeglia Nin has candid connectivity conversations with leaders shaping the future of wireless. In this episode, Catherine is joined by Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), to unpack what truly limits Wi-Fi performance today—and the breakthroughs poised to fix it.

Tiago explains why the biggest Wi-Fi bottlenecks aren’t raw speeds, but coverage gaps and latency, and how poor coordination between devices and networks creates frustrating user experiences in homes, offices, and public venues. From the familiar “parking lot Wi-Fi problem” to under-dimensioned enterprise networks, he outlines where Wi-Fi most often fails users.

The conversation explores how mesh networks, multi-AP coordination, smarter traffic scheduling, and innovations across Wi-Fi 6, 6E, and Wi-Fi 7 are dramatically improving real-world performance. Tiago also breaks down the importance of the 6 GHz band, why access to clean spectrum is essential as device density explodes, and how wider channels unlock lower latency and new enterprise use cases.

Finally, Tiago makes the case for Wi-Fi as the primary infrastructure of the digital economy, citing data that shows the vast majority of wireless data traffic flows over Wi-Fi—not cellular—and explains why policymakers, enterprises, and the broader ecosystem must recognize and support its central role.

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