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

[Darren Fulton]

> 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

It's interesting that when a large corporate starts firing up transmitters
on top of a community group's, there's a lot of hand wringing and talk of
peaceful co-existance. I suspect if the personal telco guys had just done
the same thing to Starbucks the story would have a much different tone.

>
> 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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