[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless channel use sets up turf battle

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This is bad. And can you really call Starbucks a barista vis-a-vis 
Pellegrini's? It's like calling McDonald's hamburgers health food.
- Barry

Wireless channel use sets up turf battle
08/19/02
JEFFREY KOSSEFF and ERIC HAND
The world's biggest barista and a grass-roots group are squaring off in a 
wireless game of chicken at Pioneer Courthouse Square.
On one end stands Starbucks, which this week likely will begin marketing a 
paid service that lets its customers in Portland's living room connect 
their laptops wirelessly to the Internet. On the other is Personal Telco, 
a local group of computer hobbyists, which has provided the same service 
for free in the square since February.
Sure, there's room on the wireless spectrum for peaceful coexistence. But 
Starbucks, using wireless carrier T-Mobile, is transmitting its signal on 
the same channel Personal Telco has used for the past six months. Neither 
has budged.
The result? Both Starbucks customers and Personal Telco members may face 
slower speeds on the suddenly crowded channel. 

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