Thursday, July 14, 2005

EU moves to speed up Europe's wireless Internet

A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The European Commission opened access to a new radio frequency that it said will speed up wireless access to the Internet in coffee shops and airports throughout Europe.

The European Commission said on Thursday it was making available part of the 5 gigahertz (GHz) band for Wi-Fi, a technology used by laptops for high-speed, wireless connections to the Internet.

The new spectrum will allow data transfer at 50 megabits per second compared with 10 megabits on the current 2.4 GHz radio band, originally used for microwave ovens.


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