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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by rsynnott on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:52AM (#45875038)
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.

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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by Aardwolf on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:06AM (#45875576)
What continent does UK consider itself part of then?
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by rsynnott on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:14AM (#45875647)
Context matters; you can generally tell whether someone's talking politics or geography.
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by Aardwolf on Monday November 10, 2025 @05:32PM (#45881866)
But in politics the distinction between EU and Europe matters, there's the political EU region, but countries like Switzerland and Norway are politically still in Europe despite not being in EU just due to all the neighboring countries, in theory same should apply to UK
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by crote on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:36AM (#45875880)
It likes to believe it is somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by freehorse on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:35AM (#45876416)
Whenever I go to the UK, people there seem to consistently refer to EU or the rest/continental europe in general as "europe", esp in political/economic context. My impression is that the UK is just too important to be grouped together with other countries.
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by mr_toad on Monday November 10, 2025 @10:24AM (#45876846)
Ask two different people and get three different answers.
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by a2800276 on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:32AM (#45875319)
Also, most people are aware that "Europe" the continent is unlikely to make such decisions, so it's pretty obvious what's meant by context.
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by ttoinou on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:13AM (#45875637)
There are others ways to coordinates european countries than EU institutions
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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by littlestymaar on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:58AM (#45875521)
It's not obvious at all actually, since there are many European things that also affect Island, Norway and Switzerland for being part of EFTA, but an equally high number of things that don't.

And even the EU itself is pretty fragmented with various overlapping areas with different rules.

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Re:Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cel... by ksec on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:24AM (#45875747)
>the EU is colloquially referred to as "Europe" in many contexts in the UK.

It really should have been EUR for Europe, and EU as in European Union.

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