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

[Radio Tech]

At 11:08 AM 8/21/02 +1000, sanbar wrote:
>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. 

That's life in the free World, Starbuck$ customers will get peeved for 
a paid service that does not work properly. It would be easy if one or the
other moved channels...BUT knowing human beings, it will turn into
"wireless rage" probably with someone using an 802.11 jammer, in the
finish :-(

Jack
Rockhampton

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