stackyFACTSTech companies love a good collective lie. Most people assume it means 'Wireless Fidelity', but the term was literally cooked up by a marketing agency hired by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance. They just wanted a catchy consumer name that rolled off the tongue better than the dreadful standard name, IEEE 802.11b.
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