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In 1999, the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA), later renamed the Wi-Fi Alliance, sought a user-friendly name for technology based on the IEEE 802.11b standard. The technical name was cumbersome for consumers and marketers.

In the late 1990s, the 2.4 GHz wireless spectrum was crowded and unregulated. If vendors marketed devices simply as "802.11," there was no guarantee that a laptop with an Intel card could talk to a router made by Linksys. wifi trademark

Would you like the official usage guidelines document from the Wi-Fi Alliance, or help with a specific use case (e.g., for a product box, app store listing, or blog post)? the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA)