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Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi 145

Posted by timothy
from the how-can-a-jump-rope-be-wi-fi? dept.
adeelarshad82 writes "As reported yesterday lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a 'Super Wi-Fi' network. However, the only issue is that Super Wi-Fi isn't really Wi-Fi: Mobile analyst Sascha Segan explains the difference and also gets into why it's incorrectly being dubbed as Super Wi-Fi."
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  • 'wireless' is generic, wifi is not! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by TheGratefulNet (143330) on Saturday January 28, @01:32PM (#38850517)

    for one, I do side with the big corps saying they need to protect their product name or protocol name.

    is ham radio wifi? is fm radio 'home transmitters' wifi? is cb radio (gawd, I'm old) wifi?

    how about our cordless phones? those are 'wifi' too?

    assinine.

    now, the other way around is equally wrong. when MS took 'windows' and now they own that word, that was wrong. apple seems to think they own a lot of common words and colors, too.

    but wifi is not at all generic and didn't start out generic. it should be respected as its own thing and not name-stolen.

  • Re:Summary (Score:2, Interesting)

    by spire3661 (1038968) on Saturday January 28, @02:09PM (#38850713) Journal
    "But, if you go to a store and ask for Band-Aids and they give you a generic brand plastic adhesive, that's trademark infringement. Same reason why restaurant servers have to correct you when you ask for Coke, say, and they only have Pepsi." This is some logical diarrhea here. They say 'We only have Pepsi" because alot of people are like me and if I order Coke and it comes back Pepsi im gonna scream loudly. Has nothing to do with trademarks and everything to do with CUSTOMER SERVICE. Also in alot of the US South, Coke is all pop, be it sprite, mt dew, 7up its all coke to them.

  • Re:Useless article (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 28, @03:15PM (#38851033)

    the answer is NO. if you had actually RTFAed :
    You can't put a white-space radio into a phone or laptop because each white-space device must check its location against a database to determine which TV channels and wireless microphones are being used in the device's area, so they can avoid those channels.

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