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Notorious Donald Trump-backing Tufton Street has its internet cables cut by activists
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Pretty sure it's an English thing, their telco companies call the internet services they sell WiFi. I think it's because a WiFi connection is all the end user typically sees. Victorian, Georgian and post WW2 ghetto houses aren't easy to install new cabling into.
It's not a synonym, it's just that these guys are idiots.
To be clear I agree with what they did but I wish they'd run the note past someone with technical skills, because now they just sound stupid. Although so are the occupants in the building so perhaps the note was aimed more at their intelligence level.
No I'm not saying it's an English language thing, I'm saying it's English like an England thing. Everyone in England calls their internet "the WiFi". They say that because their internet providers market it to them like that and in general they typically rely on wireless (WiFi) in their homes because their houses were built in a time when they were barely equipped to handle electrical cabling let alone ethernet cabling.
The article is from the UK you can tell from the English house and the English police office out the front.
The only people who call Wi-Fi internet are people that don't know what either are.
Technologically electorate people can be found all over the world but it's not evidence of a language thing.
I mean you are clearly in the UK (or at the very least registered with a UK instance for some other obscure reason) so surely you've noticed that almost everyone there outside of those working in telecoms and IT calls the internet "The WiFi"? I agree that the only people who confuse the two terms are technologically illiterate, but sadly that is a significant number of people. I worked there in telecoms for 5 years and it was one of the first things I noticed when talking to people with anything related to internet services.