During this time, 2,000 to 8,000 new cell towers will continue to be erected annually, says Ken Schmidt, president of Steel in the Air Inc., a Baldwinsville, N.Y. -
based cell tower lease consulting company.
A customer would only need a typical router placed by a window to receive signals for Internet and TV service from a neighborhood -
based cell tower.
Internet connectivity is delivered to planes either by expensive ground -
based cell towers or via even more expensive satellite relays, which means there will always be a significantly higher cost for this sort of access than there is for the terrestrial equivalent.
If you have to make a call, wait until the ship docks so you can connected to the less expensive land -
based cell towers.
Not exact matches
«You could imagine in the future that all
cell towers or Wi - Fi routers could come with our
base station technology embedded in it,» said co-author Vamsi Talla, a former UW electrical engineering doctoral student and Allen School research associate.
Personal air vehicles will use GPS and
cell phone technology to automatically broadcast information about location and speed to ground -
based towers.
In the fall, Google was sued by Skyhook Wireless — the Boston -
based outfit that pioneered the art of pinpointing a mobile device's location
based on Wi - Fi and
cell -
tower signals — which accused using Android to strong - arm handset makers into choosing Google's location technology rather than Skyhook's.
Limited location services
based on
cell towers are likely to be available to KDK should user give their consent.
In contrast, Kindle regularly reports back to Amazon what's being read, when it's being read, and, at least for Kindles with 3G, where it's being read (apparently
based on the location of the
cell towers).
I suppose the Kindle's 3G connection might make it possible for some location -
based apps that use
cell towers instead of GPS.
Tower dumps are shrouded in secrecy, but there is no doubt the police are using this technology on a regular
basis, as well as similar tools that impersonate actual
cell towers and trick phones into attaching to them and disclosing phone log and location information.
This last feature is becoming increasingly popular with apps like UberTwitter, which automatically updates your specific location
based on
cell tower proximity, and platforms like BrightKite, used specifically for finding those close to you for spontaneous meet - ups.
The plaintiff, an employee of an equipment contractor, was performing work in a concrete shelter at the
base of a
cell tower in Talladega, Alabama.
Cell phones typically operate on land - based systems that work when the phone can be in contact with cell tow
Cell phones typically operate on land -
based systems that work when the phone can be in contact with
cell tow
cell towers.
These are small cellular
base stations to which phones in the plane would connect just like they would any other
cell tower.
Connecting planes to ground -
based cell phone
towers resulted in constrained bandwidth with download speeds of around 3 Mbps.
The first iPhone didn't have a GPS chip, though it could try and roughly work out where you were
based on
cell towers and Wi - Fi data using something called Skyhook, which Apple later replaced.
Unified Network Location Provider (UnifiedNlp) is a library that provides Wi - Fi - and
Cell -
tower -
based geolocation to applications that use Google's network location provider.
There is however GPS with A-GPS support only — this means you can get the approximate location
based on the network
cell tower location.
«A property with a
cell tower is really two properties — the real estate and the
cell tower lease,» says James Kennedy, CEO and founder of SteepSteel, a company
based in The Woodlands, Texas, that is at the forefront of developing an MLS - like
cell tower marketplace.
The software will locate lost or stolen hardware
based on GPS, Wi - Fi, and
cell -
tower positioning and allows you to remotely wipe data from your lost hardware.
Cell phone
towers have long been viewed by residents across the country as eyesores, and some residents have expressed health and radiation concerns from the
towers too (although the American Cancer Society,
based from research, says that it is unlikely.)