Inventory: Top 10 WiFi Industry Events in 2016

As we all know, WiFi has penetrated into various fields with its advantages of convenience, stability, speed, low cost and flexible networking, and has played a very important role. It has also successfully changed people's lifestyles. 2016 is a year of vigorous development for the WiFi industry, and it is also a year of coexistence of opportunities and challenges. Among them, the security of public WiFi has always been the focus of public attention, but overall, WiFi is ushering in its golden age.

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What major events happened in the WiFi field in 2016? Now, let me take you through the "Top Ten Events in the WiFi Industry in 2016"!

1. CCTV 315 Gala Exposes: Public Free WIFI Can Steal All Privacy in an Instant

At the 2016 CCTV 315 Gala, the host proved through experiments that public WIFI can extract personal privacy information from the logged-in user's mobile phone, including mobile phone number, home address, ID number and even bank card number.

During the experiment, it was found that public WIFI can collect all kinds of information from users. Audiences were randomly selected on site to verify the accuracy of this information; whether it is ordering food apps, booking movie tickets, daily living habits and even personal privacy, they can all be figured out by criminals bit by bit.

2. China WiFi Service Standards Committee established in Beijing

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On March 31, a closed-door meeting themed "Green WiFi, Safe Internet Access" initiated by the China WiFi Industry Alliance was successfully held in Beijing. The delegates believed that most of the current WiFi security issues are caused by phishing WiFi, while the public WiFi and commercial WiFi of the majority of commercial WiFi practitioners, whether manufacturers or operators, are safe. Therefore, the core of solving WiFi security issues is "how to make more netizens good at identifying and uniformly cracking down on phishing WiFi."

At the meeting, more than 20 corporate representatives including Smart China, China Communications Group, Zanpu Technology, Helian Health, Ruijie, China Unicom Wolan, Lianle Wireless, Dunchong Technology, Kangkai Technology, Aikuai, Kunteng Changlian, Sihai Zhonglian, GBCOM, Baimi Life, 16WiFi, Maiwai Di, Master Key, 360 and others jointly initiated the establishment of the "China WiFi Service Standards Committee" with the China WiFi Industry Alliance to sort out WiFi specifications, formalize and standardize WiFi services. At the same time, it is planned to establish a national anti-phishing WiFi center to connect with security departments, report daily, and crack down on phishing WiFi.

3. WiFi Circle CEO Club is established

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In April 2016, the "WiFi CEO Club" initiated by Hotlabs was officially established in Beijing. As the first industry club in China for CEOs or CEO-level individuals in WiFi-related industry circles, the WiFi CEO Club will regularly and irregularly hold CEO closed-door salons, corporate visits and other offline activities in various forms. In addition, Hotlabs will also formulate a club membership system to provide CEOs with daily information services, including regular industry research reports, daily industry technology information, weekly industry news selections, biweekly industry capital theory, etc.

At present, the club is actively recruiting members. Existing members include more than 500 CEOs from hundreds of companies including China Media Group, China Intelligence, Beijing Ruian Technology, Kunteng Changlian, Huashi Internet, Shenzhen Baimi Life, Shanghai Juwan Network, Beijing Guochuang Fusheng Communication, Shanghai Wolan, 16WiFi, Tianjin Zanpu, gbcom Shanghai Huanchuang, Shengtian Network, Shanghai Yunlian (Shuju Media), Suzhou Maike, Shanghai Lianshang Network, Shanghai Maiwai Di Youkang, Guangyin Network, and Maiwai Di.

4. H3C was officially established and entered the commercial WiFi market with the help of Oasis platform

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On May 21, 2015, Tsinghua Holdings and HP officially announced a cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, Tsinghua Holdings' subsidiary, Tsinghua Unigroup, acquired 51% of the shares of HP's "New H3C" and became the controlling shareholder of the company. "New H3C" will include HP's wholly-owned subsidiary H3C Communications and HP China's server, storage and technical service businesses, with a total valuation of approximately US$4.5 billion (excluding cash and liabilities).

A year later, on May 6, 2016, H3C Group was officially established in Beijing. On the 18th, it released the country's leading new IT online operation platform - H3C Oasis Platform. The platform provides partners with three major services: cloud operation and maintenance, data analysis, and application sharing, to jointly build a WiFi connection ecosystem.

As a result, H3C has stepped onto the stage of history and become a typical representative of China's overall information technology development strength that is "on par" with the international leading level. It will further change the current IT industry landscape and play an important role in the development of the new economy in China and even the world.

5. China WiFi Industry 2016 Summit Forum held in Beijing

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The "China WiFi Industry 2016 Summit Forum" jointly organized by the China Mobile Communications Association and the China Western Research and Development Promotion Association was held in Beijing on May 18. At the forum, the organizers announced that they would officially launch the pilot project of WiFi into villages network poverty alleviation in Sichuan Province, and launch a series of activities and measures to improve the construction of rural informatization and intelligence, achieve poverty alleviation through informatization, further promote the advancement of WiFi technology and application innovation, and explore the road to smart rural construction.

With the development of the WiFi into the village activities, every household will have broadband and WiFi. By connecting to the Internet, a smart logistics system will be built to drive industrial products and emerging technologies to the countryside, increase agricultural production, promote farmers' income, and continuously narrow the "information gap" between rural and urban areas to achieve rural "digital poverty alleviation", build a smart new countryside, and thus promote the realization of the national information strategy. The conference pointed out the huge demand of the rural market for companies in the WiFi industry, and also provided convenience for individual WiFi operators to expand rural fashion.

6. WiFi Master Key’s global user base exceeds 900 million, launching big data location advertising service

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On June 29, LinkSure Network announced that the total number of users of its product WiFi Master Key has exceeded 900 million worldwide, with 520 million monthly active users. In the global mobile Internet industry, only a few companies such as Google, Facebook and Tencent have products that can reach 900 million users. Based on the huge user base and the unique "people and scenes" advantage, WiFi Master Key will simultaneously launch an original location advertising service to help small and medium-sized businesses and individuals push timely and accurate information content.

WiFi Master Key has grown from an initial free WiFi connection tool to a mobile Internet platform with massive data. WiFi Master Key's location advertising will make full use of big data computing capabilities to infer user preferences and needs, and accurately push information about small and medium-sized businesses and individuals to users within a specific radiation range, so that information such as selling idle items, making friends in the same city, promoting stores, and discounts can be presented to users with needs at the lowest cost and highest efficiency. In addition, WiFi Master Key will also promote location information services to social welfare activities.

7. Tuniu released the "2016 Outbound WIFI Report"

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On September 13, Tuniu.com, a leading online leisure travel company in China, released the "2016 Outbound WIFI Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), which objectively analyzed the consumption characteristics and development trends of outbound WIFI in 2016 based on Tuniu's WIFI user big data.

The report points out that outbound WIFI has become a rigid demand for outbound tourists. From the current booking and usage situation, whether outbound users can surf the Internet happily is decided by women; the price and speed are the factors that users are most concerned about when ordering outbound WIFI; the functions that users use most when surfing the Internet with WIFI abroad are social networking and travel booking apps; in terms of outbound WIFI users' travel destinations, Japan, South Korea and Thailand are the most popular, and Tuniu's self-operated "Niu Wireless" products have obvious advantages in these destinations.

8. The 3rd China Good WiFi Selection 2016 is launched

It is reported that the 2016 Third China Good WiFi Annual Selection, hosted by WiFi Circle, co-organized by Xiaobo Wireless, and specially supported by Wanwang Broadcom, Kangkai Technology, 7G Network, and Lemon Network, was officially launched on October 17. During the collection stage, the Good WiFi Organizing Committee received nearly 500 applications from 278 WiFi-related companies across the country. The selection committee verified and pre-selected the application materials received, and finally a total of 108 voting items were shortlisted for the 8 projects in the voting phase. As of 18:00 on November 17, the online voting ended, with a total of more than 25,000 participants and a cumulative number of votes exceeding 90,000! This set of figures not only highlights the influence and credibility of the 2016 Third China Good WiFi Annual Selection, but also presents the image of the booming development of the WiFi industry in 2016 to everyone. The award ceremony for the winning companies will be held at the "2017 Baima Lake Summit" held in the Baima Banquet Hall of Hangzhou Baima Lake Jianguo Hotel on November 30.

9. The 4th China WiFi Industry Summit was held in Hangzhou

The 4th China WiFi Industry Summit (2017 White Horse Lake Summit) was successfully held from November 30 to December 1 at the White Horse Lake Jianguo Hotel in Hangzhou, under the guidance of the China Mobile Communications Association, hosted by the China WiFi Industry Alliance, undertaken by Meng Technology, co-organized by the Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) Management Committee and the government, and specially supported by the Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) Development and Reform Bureau, Zhejiang Internet of Things Industry Association, Hangzhou Binjiang Internet of Things Town, Hangzhou Binjiang Creative Town, Hangzhou Binjiang Internet (Industry) Town, and China WiFi Industry Base, and with the diamond cooperation of H3C Group. The theme of this summit is "For a Wirelessly Connected World".

At this forum, a ceremony to establish the Good WiFi Hotspot Alliance was held on site, aiming to bring together high-quality first-line WiFi operating companies, promote industry standards, unify VI logos, and conduct secondary processing of WIFI entry data, ultimately achieving precise marketing, user data mining, user tags, customer retention and other services, allowing the people to surf the Internet safely.

The Wireless City Committee was established and the white paper was released during the conference. The Wireless City Committee was established to standardize the construction of wireless cities, expand the wireless city industry, and help wireless city member units achieve common interests.

The 2016 Third China Good WiFi Annual Selection and Award Ceremony was also held at the same time, hosted by WiFi Circle, co-organized by Xiaobo Wireless, and specially supported by Wanwang Broadcom, Kangkai Technology, 7G Network, and Lemon Network. Trophies and certificates were awarded to enterprises and individuals who won 71 awards in 10 categories, including "WiFi Mr. of the Year", "WiFi Innovation Product of the Year", "Best WiFi Industry Solution of the Year", "WiFi Enterprise of the Year", "Wireless City Operator of the Year", "Best WiFi Industry Case of the Year", "Best Wireless City of the Year", "Famous SSID of the Year", "WiFi Girl of the Year", and "Good WiFi Shortlisted Enterprise Award".

10. South Korea’s nationwide WiFi download speed hits a record high in 2016

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According to data released by the National Information Service of South Korea in December, the average download speed of public WiFi in South Korea in 2016 was 144.73Mbps, an increase of 57.5% compared to last year's 91.87Mbps, while the average upload speed reached 141.47Mbps, an increase of 65.9%. In addition, the average home WiFi speed reached 270.4Mbps, quadrupling that of last year.

From the perspective of operators, Korea Telecom's WiFi service has the fastest download speed of 162.4Mbps, while SK Telecom and LG Uplus are 150.77 and 121.15Mbps respectively. The ranking of connection success rate is SK Telecom, LG Uplus and Korea Telecom.

In terms of 4G LTE network speed, this year's average download speed reached 120.09Mbps, and the upload speed was 41.83Mbps, both of which have been significantly improved.