Sentences with phrase «cell towers for»

Existing internet infrastructure typically uses different physical components for different services: cell towers for 3G and 4G, cable or phone lines for home broadband.

Not exact matches

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.

You can simply disable location services with an app, for example, but a mobile ISP can always see where phones are connected to its cell towers.

«With 90 percent of cell towers on the island out of service, people can't get in touch with their loved ones — and it's harder for rescue workers to coordinate relief efforts.

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.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

Meeting the need for more data will require more equipment deployed on cell towers across the U.S..

That alone makes American Tower's more than 40,000 cell towers incredibly valuable property for the next several years, but that is only scratching the surface considering the opportunities American Tower has overseas.

So, for a non-telecom disruptor to come into the wireless industry, it needs to partner with or acquire one of the Big Four since it would need the infrastructure such as cell towers and spectrum.

In short, it was a fantastic experience and I'm grateful to Cottonelle for sending me to the event, though I remain super bummed that the AT&T cell towers were apparently so jammed up that I couldn't broadcast via Periscope as planned and none of my pictures would load while at the show!

There are no studies that show that digital pulsed microwave radiation exposure for children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, tablets, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, smart meters, or any other wireless device is safe.

The public hearing portion concerned the approval of a special permit for the cell phone tower at Stony Ridge Plaza operated by T - Mobile Northeast LLC.

An initial proposal to build a single cell tower at the town landfill at the end of Steve's Lane sparked an Article 78 lawsuit by a viewshed protection group called Sensible Wireless for Gardiner, primarily on the grounds that its 160 - foot height would violate the terms of the new Zoning Law.

The lawmakers jointly called for higher cell towers in the Adirondack Park at a legislative breakfast in Plattsburgh last week.

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.

Dropped calls are really something that needs to go away, and the solution that a lot of companies have come up with now — what they call femtocells — is that you can, for a fee of about a $ 100 or something like this, have basically a little cell tower in your house or apartment, and it connects to your high - speed internet and you have very, very good coverage with that.

«The future city will not need big, high - power cell towers, expensive coaxial cables, or repetitive network infrastructures for different wireless services,» Xu says.

According to the Technion researchers, fuel cells can even play an energy saving role in airline and airport ground support operations when they are on used for systems such as de-icing and runway light towers.

This data is collected automatically during the normal course of business at Telefónica Deutschland — for example when a cell phone communicates with a cell tower to make a call or surf the Web — and it can be used to create anonymous mobility profiles.

The researchers have also tested a full - scale, cross-section of a tower cell for operational loads and extreme loads for a 2.3 megawatt Siemens turbine.

Such information can include certain location data pertaining to a user, if such information is made available from GPS, Wi - FI, or cell phone tower data in accordance with whatever settings may allow for the collection of such data in the user's web browser or cell phone.

They monitored 100,000 users for 6 months and recorded the location of the cell phone tower that transmitted each call or text message.

«Most cell towers and all landlines are down,» Aya Collins, a spokeswoman for the National Science Foundation (NSF), told Space.com in an email.

Background app updates, cell tower pings and other hidden activity accounts for almost half the battery drain on Android phones.

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.

King's College London Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, 28th Floor, Tower Wing, Guy's Campus, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.

As the device becomes more sophisticated, for instance with the iPhone app, which we're launching very, very soon, we take the GPS chip and just make a query to that and get exact GPS coordinates or cell tower coordinates.

-- and the oddball people he introduces us to — such as those who can not tolerate any electromagnetic energy, like what cell - phone towers emit — are absolutely begging for Herzog-esque portraits devoted to them alone.

Still, Herzog's typically expressive cinematography and eye for quietly eccentric moments aren't absent: A recovering internet addict is introduced while clumsily running across a playground bridge; a hermetic community living in a cell - tower - free zone celebrates together on banjos and fiddles; cows run across a field in slow motion while a rocket launches behind them; monks stand around staring at their smartphones.

It's the right time for The Doctor to move on; a notion that Tennant and Hurt can't bear, especially when they're all locked in a prison cell in the Tower of London together.

When Erickson heard that a cell phone company was looking for a place to erect a reception tower, she negotiated a fee for the company to use her school rooftop for tower space.

And thanks to The Five's status as the main route between the state's major population centers, the cell towers necessary to provide end - to - end coverage were built years ago, meaning I only lost signal a handful of times and for short periods — all due to unfavorable topography.

The last you might remember was that my teammate, Mercedes - Benz USA CEO Steve Cannon, and I were waiting at the Teatro Grande in the center of Brescia, staring at Gina Lollobrigida, trying desperately to find a working cell tower and waiting for the evening start of the Mille Miglia.

Just like the phone company has to recover all the sunk costs for switches, engineers, lines (or cell towers), billing systems, customer service etc., and so they charge you for the «free» phone call that bears no incremental costs, so the publisher has to recover their sunk costs in the ebook.

Could be a great T-Mobile@Home phone for roaming between hotspots and cell towers, seamlessly.

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.

A patchwork of supplies for an upcoming event loiters in the corner, a tower of files resides on her desk, and when her cell phone suddenly emits a cheerful sound, she reaches down to silence the device without missing a beat.

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.

Visit South Australia's most intriguing museum — The Old Museum Goal for a one hour tour, which includes a walk through the ghostly cells and the hanging tower.

Developed in partnership with advisory firm Willis Tower Watson and insurance company PT Chubb General Insurance Indonesia, Garuda Lifestyle Protection provides coverage for wallet, handbag and document theft, as well as theft of electronic devices from cars and misuse of cell phone minutes.

Dead Cells may often be compared to Dark Souls for its challenging encounters and exciting combat, but in an article from Gamasutra, producer Steve Filby revealed that the excellent rogue - lite was originally a tower defense game, something that he says is evident in many of the game's skills.

On top of Scribblenauts and Drawn to Life, 5th Cell is also responsible for the real - time strategy and tower defense game known as lock's quest.

According to the World Bank, 100 % of registered homes in the United States have access to the electricity grid, so it is unusual for a cell tower to be «off - grid,» and thus require a distributed source of energy in order to operate.

A key market opportunity for the company is replacing diesel with clean energy for off - grid cell phone towers (a concept I wrote about here) as well as replacing diesel consumption in mini grid applications.

For instance the outer canopy area of the Power Tower could be made from the hydrogen producing cells.

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.

For your statement to be true you would have to go without credit, a vehicle, a house, an internet connection, a cable TV, a connection to a cell tower.

If you're travelling quickly — for example, in a car on the freeway or a high - speed train — your phone has to constantly hand off to new cell towers and that can use quite a bit of power.

Phones on the plane won't boost their signal and attempt to contact cell towers on the ground, so this «eliminates the potential for interference,» according to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler.