Sentences with phrase «cell phone towers»

* The distance and path to the nearest cell phone tower.

It's expensive to own and maintain cell phone towers, and thousands of miles of wire.

This also means that there are next to zero working cell phone towers and no reception anywhere on the island.

Power goes out and cell phone towers go down, making most modern forms of staying in touch with one another difficult.

That means if cell phone towers were still operating, you could theoretically use the radio to get your phone working again if the power is out.

State Sen. Tony Avella (c.) leads local residents in a rally protesting the number of cell phone towers in the Whitestone neighborhood.

They essentially mimic cell phone towers in order to monitor data and voice traffic, and were so secret that prosecutors around the country resigned cases based on evidence collected from cell - site simulators rather than disclose their existence to courts.

Some airplane Wi - Fi networks operate using an air - to - ground system, where an antenna on the bottom of the plane connects to existing cell phone towers on land.

He worked briefly as a computer technician for a local tax office before setting out to launch his own business; early on in his career, he sold batteries for cell phone tower antennas.

They mimic cell phone towers in order to force cell phones in the area to transmit «pings» back to the devices, enabling law enforcement to track a suspect's phone and pinpoint its location.

Graham's pieces also reference the sense of humor and clumsiness of cell phone towers disguised as pine trees and their rapidly changing landscapes.

Nonetheless, the deal between OMC Power, and Bharti Infratel (India's largest mobile phone provider) to provide clean renewable energy to its off grid cell phone towers was indeed historic.

The secretive nature of stingray use has begun to backfire on law enforcement, however, with states beginning to pass laws that require police to obtain a warrant before they can set up a fake cell phone tower for surveillance.

With cell phone towers down and power outages, communication to, from and within, the territory has been difficult, impacting the ability to fully assess the damage.

Cell - site simulators, also commonly known as IMSI catchers or stingrays, masquerade as legitimate cell phone towers, tricking phones nearby into connecting to the device instead of the tower operated by the phone company.

The 70 - foot AT&T cell phone tower is made to look like a palm tree, but has no actual palm trees surrounding it.

Cell phone tower operator American Tower, now a real estate investment trust, increased its revenue more than 21 % last year as acquisitions helped expand its footprint.

Stec, Little and Jones also discussed the need for higher cell phone towers in the Adirondack Park, ongoing efforts to combat opiate addiction and the state budget process.

Although Alcatel — Lucent's connected car is a prototype, it is designed with a wireless hot spot that links into the Internet via cell phone tower signals as it cruises along.

Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data to aid their investigations.

Development of this technology could lead to near lossless delivery of electricity to homes and businesses as well as to improvements in cell phone tower receptions and even high - speed trains.

The objects could be things like lightweight solar sails or a kind of alien cell phone tower used for interstellar communications.

Steinke: Dycom is a construction firm, and the biggest piece of our travel is in hotel for our field drivers, our people who are on the road building cell phone towers and digging ditches.

Cell phone towers fabricated to look like trees parody our cultures conflicted need to exploit and conserve the earth.

From a particular virus known as Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), through cell phone towers interfering with bees» ability to navigate, (this was later largely discounted as one of the numerous conspiracy theories and far - fetched hypotheses surrounding CCD), to high - levels of atmospheric CO2 messing with bees natural sense of self - regulation in the colony, ideas and opinions have come thick and fast.

It was also a few metres from the exhaust fans from air conditioning units of a nearby building, and as Watts was standing by the thermometer, he could even feel warm exhaust air from the nearby cell phone tower equipment sheds blowing past him!

Now, let's face it: many people live around cell phone towers and entire cities are Wi - Fi hotspots.

In fact, everything from CO2 confusing bees» social structure to cell phone towers messing with bees» navigation systems has been cited as a possible cause of CCD and mysterious honeybee declines.

South African photographer Dillon Marsh has a beautiful series of photographs of some sad and awkward looking cell phone towers disguised as trees.

I personally have dealt with it in several cases where, after the fact, a tel - co's cell phone tower records are subpoenaed and then used at trial to purport to provide a location of the accused (or at least his / her cell phone) during the commission of an offence.

He'd be interested, though, over the fight J. Craig Williams discussed in his post regarding cell phone towers disguised as trees.

Small cells are miniature cell phone towers that can be placed in inconspicuous places like light poles and the roofs of buildings.

Acting head of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan told Sen. Ron Wyden the agency does not use cell - site simulators — a type of surveillance gear often referred to as a «Stingray» that can track down a specific mobile device by emulating cell phone towers — to locate undocumented immigrants.

Connecting planes to ground - based cell phone towers resulted in constrained bandwidth with download speeds of around 3 Mbps.

Many home owners across the country are trying to stop cell phone towers from being placed in residential areas, arguing that the «eyesores» decrease home values.

Appeals Court upholds county permit decision on Franconia Township cell phone tower (Chicago County Press, Nov. 10, 2011)

Now a new generation of entrepreneurs are experimenting with «pay - as - you go» systems, mobile banking payments, and community power that extends clean energy from off - grid cell phone towers to surrounding communities.

The trackers work by mimicking cell phone towers, forcing phones in the area to ping them.

When authorities can not or do not want to go that route, they can set up a simulated cell phone tower — often called a stingray — that surreptitiously gathers information from the suspects in question as well as any other mobile device in the area.

The device, which acts as a fake cell phone tower, essentially allows the government to electronically search large areas for a particular cell phone's signal — sucking down data on potentially thousands of innocent people along the way.

Colloquially known as «Stingrays» after Harris Corporation's brand name for a common model, cell - site simulators masquerade as legitimate cell phone towers, tricking phones nearby into connecting to them.

In Phoenix, the companies have been disguising cell phone towers as palm trees.

Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.