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The comment resolution process failed after agreement could not be established on a variety of fundamental issues. For example, the China NB continued to insist that WAPI was justified because 802.11 included WEP, which is known to be broken. On the other side, the US NB and the IEEE 802.11 NB noted that WEP-based security had been deprecated in favour of WPA2-based security in IEEE 802.11-2007, and that no one had ever alleged any issues with WPA2-based security. In addition, the IEEE 802.11 WG noted that the functionality offered by WAPI systems was equivalent to only a small subset of the security offered by WPA2-based systems.

The China NB eventually withdrew WAPI in October 2011 (document JTC1/SC6 N15030) and the project was formally cancelled by SC6 in February 2012. The reasons for the withdrawal are unclear. The Chinese proponents of WAPI from IWNCOMM were clearly very unhappy when the withdrawal was announced. It has been speculated{{by whom|date=August 2014}} that Chinese government authorities ordered the withdrawal on the basis that WAPI had failed to be standardised by ISO/IEC after eight years. In addition, despite mandates for WAPI to be implemented in China in Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones and by the three Chinese service providers, it is very rarely used in practice.

===Chinese cell phone usage===

Mobile phones in China are controlled by [[Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China|MIIT]]. MobileThe phones"indefinite comingpostponing" outof inthe ChinaWAPI requriement in 20092003 requiredcaused the MIIT to supportstop the certification of any phones with Wi-Fi capability. In 2009, a requirement for Chinese phones to support WAPI standardif there is any WLAN capability was made, effectively un-banning WLAN hardware from Chinese phones.<ref>[http://www.infzm.com/content/62143 WiFi圈地之战] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120907191213/http://www.infzm.com/content/62143 |date=2012-09-07 }} - [[南方周末]]</ref><ref name="Fletcher"/> One of the sticking points behind the [[iPhone]] in China was the support of WiFi without the WAPI standard. In the end, it was released without any WLAN at all.<ref>{{cite paper |title=Apple Will Strike iPhone Deal In China Three Months Earlier Than Expected, Says Analyst |url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2009/07/apple_will_stri.html |first=Peter |last=Burrows |accessdate=2009-07-14}}</ref> In the end, it was released without any WLAN at all.

According to China's State Radio Monitoring Center Chinese, in April 2011 regulators approved the frequency ranges used by a new Apple mobile phone with 3G and wireless LAN support including WAPI.<ref>{{cite paper |title=Apple Tweaks Wi-Fi in IPhone to Use China Protocol | url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/195524/ |first=Owen |last=Fletcher |accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref> [[Dell|Dell Inc's]] Mini 3 phones have also received network access licenses for China.<ref>{{cite paper |title=Pictures of New Dell 3G Phone Put on China Regulator Site |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/194002/pictures_of_new_dell_3g_phone_put_on_china_regulator_site.html |first=Owen |last=Fletcher |accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref>

The Chinese government's preference for the WAPI standard in some respects is similar to their preference for the [[TD-SCDMA]] for their [[3G]] network.

== WAPI Alliance ==

A "WAPI Alliance" analogous to the [[Wi-Fi Alliance]] exists in China.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wapia.org.cn/}}</ref>

==See also==