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The inventor of the technology behind Wifi is the #Egyptian scientist Dr. Hatem Zagloul, who was born and raised in Giza Governorate and graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, before immigrating to Canada in 1983, and there he obtained a master’s degree...
...Then a doctorate in electromagnetic physics, and in 1992, together with his Egyptian friend, Michel Fattoush, he presented mankind with one of the greatest inventions.
Zagloul explained during a Devoxx talk how he and Michel Fattouche, another fellow Egyptian scientist, invented the 2G technology and later contributed to the invention of 3G technology.
Dr. Hatem Zagloul invented a technology called Wideband Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing, or β€œWOFDM” for short. This technology later became the foundation for what is now known as Wi-Fi.

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