Can Cell tower be used to transmit Wi-Fi and if so, does that make their signal stronger (more far reaching) than the Wi-Fi Signal a router emits?

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Can Cell tower be used to transmit Wi-Fi and if so, does that make their signal stronger (more far reaching) than the Wi-Fi Signal a router emits?

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There was an effort many years ago to implement such a thing, the problem is that WiFi has a lot more interference issues than typical cellular networks, so each tower cannot support that many users. In fact you run into this problem a lot in hotels and convention centers, where the WiFi is not set up correctly to handle a large number of users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX

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