[ale] wireless lan that's not wifi?

[Alan Dobkin]

Possibly, but GPRS is not exactly a "LAN" technology.  It's used
primarily for "WAN" (Internet) connectivity through a mobile phone.

Alan

--On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:48 AM -0400 Jim Popovitch 
<jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:

> GPRS.
>
> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GPRS.html
>
> -Jim P.
>
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:43, Geoffrey wrote:
>> So I'm talking to this guy yesterday and he tells me there's this
>> wireless technology out there that can be used for networking and he
>> refers to it as 'wireless lan.'  Says it's not wifi and actually has
>> been around longer than wifi.  Can't be bluetooth.  So folks, anyone
>> know what this magical, mysterious technology is?