When the Federal Communications Commission issued a public notice last week seeking information on LTE-Unlicensed and Licensed Assisted Access , many media outlets tended to frame the news as a technical debate on the possibility of peaceful co-existence between two competing wireless technologies: LTE-U/LAA vs. WiFi. Cellular operators are proposing LTE-U/LAA so that they can use LTE in the unlicensed frequency bands currently used by WiFi.