The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has released its 6G vision statement, a document that outlines the WiFi-focused group’s position on 6G standards development. Leveraging SIM-based identification to authenticate users as they roam between WiFi networks requires work at many different layers of the stack, but with 6G, we can hopefully see these sorts of functions natively accommodated inside the 3GPP standard. There is significant MNO involvement in the WBA paper. The list of authors reads: AT&T, Airties, Boingo Networks, Boldyn Networks, BT, Charter, Cisco, Comcast, HFCL, Intel, Reliance Jio, Telekom Deutschland (DT), and Turk Telecom. At the heart of it, while 6G begins its standardization journey, organizations like the WBA hope to exert influence over the process. For the WBA,…