The MulteFire Alliance is an independent, international member-driven consortium defining and promoting MulteFire. MulteFire is an innovative technology that enables new wireless networks by operating cellular-based technology in unlicensed or shared spectrum, combining the performance benefits of LTE with the simplicity of Wi-Fi like deployments. The MulteFire 1.0 specification builds on 3GPP standards and is targeted for operation in the global 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum band.