{"id":107388,"date":"2020-05-21T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/lifi-promises-to-be-a-powerful-alternative-to-wifi-but-5g-awaits"},"modified":"2020-05-21T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:22:50","slug":"lifi-promises-to-be-a-powerful-alternative-to-wifi-but-5g-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/lifi-promises-to-be-a-powerful-alternative-to-wifi-but-5g-awaits","title":{"rendered":"LiFi Promises to be a Powerful Alternative to WiFi\u2014But 5G Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lifi-promises-to-be-a-powerful-alternative-to-wifi-but-5g-awaits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019 The world\u2019s largest lighting company thinks it has just the thing for people fed up with wobbly WiFi signals that cut out, slow down or don\u2019t work at all in cafes, parks, airports and other public places where the technology can be deeply unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>Signify\u2014the former Philips Lighting\u2014has for years been developing an alternative broadband technology that transmits the Internet using light waves from commercial LED light fittings rather than the radio waves of WiFi. Now, in a recently announced deal it\u2019s teaming up with one of the world\u2019s largest telecommunication firms, Vodafone, in a bid to turn the technology into a daily reality.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The light at the end of the wifi tunnel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 The world\u2019s largest lighting company thinks it has just the thing for people fed up with wobbly WiFi signals that cut out, slow down or don\u2019t work at all in cafes, parks, airports and other public places where the technology can be deeply unreliable. Signify\u2014the former Philips Lighting\u2014has for years been developing an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}