Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
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Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#2Thank you Europe?
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#3EU, not Europe.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#4Thank you Europe?
No worries brother
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#5EU, not Europe.
The Register, being British, should probably have gotten this right, but people constantly get this wrong. Even a lot of people living in the union don't even realize the different between EU, Europe, EEA, Schengen and all the other layers, so maybe it's hard to blame "outsiders" from not getting it either.
I'm guessing maybe the "European Commission" threw them off, because it's an EU entity (basically the executive branch), not "Europe wide" one, which the name kind of implies. But then "EU" also implies "Europe wide" in its name, and people seem to kind of get the difference most of the times.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#6I wish govt would put a condition on the mobile carriers to fix SS7 vulnerabilities.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#7EU, not Europe.
The Register, being British, should probably have gotten this right, but people constantly get this wrong. Even a lot of people living in the union don't even realize the different between EU, Europe, EEA, Schengen and all the other layers, so maybe it's hard to blame "outsiders" from not getting it either. I'm guessing maybe the "European Commission" threw them off, because it's an EU entity (basically the executive…
The Register know very well what the EU is. However, in practice, the EU is colloquially referred to as "Europe" in many contexts in the UK.
The rules the EU establishes will also apply to the EEA, and in practice will almost certainly also be adopted by the UK, which has tended to take its lead from the EU on such matters since Brexit. So, while pedantically these are not rules for Europe, _for practical purposes_ they likely will be.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#8EU, not Europe.
It’s called a metonymy and is purposeful.
Everyone understood that it was the relevant nearly pan-European political entity which was actually designed by the geographical designation.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#9EU, not Europe.
As others mentioned, this is British press and Britts tend to colloquially refer to EU as 'Europe'.
Re: Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
#10EU, not Europe.
The Register, being British, should probably have gotten this right, but people constantly get this wrong. Even a lot of people living in the union don't even realize the different between EU, Europe, EEA, Schengen and all the other layers, so maybe it's hard to blame "outsiders" from not getting it either. I'm guessing maybe the "European Commission" threw them off, because it's an EU entity (basically the executive…
I think most people realise there is a difference. If nothing else, Brexit made it very clear to those who didn't already know that you can be in this part of the world but not in the EU. But rightly or wrongly, people still use "Europe" as shorthand for "the European Union". It's no different to referring to the US as "America".
I do think the media should aim to do better so agree that the Register should have used the correct term.