Sentences with phrase «on a cell tower»

Smartphones generally rely on cell towers, many of which have been destroyed or taken offline by the hurricanes.

Mr. Smith said that was in part because the ground - to - air technology Gogo will use required Transport Canada approval and needed to be installed on cell towers across the country before it could be activated.

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

Limited location services based on cell towers are likely to be available to KDK should user give their consent.

We left exactly on time, arrived 15 minutes early, and Internet access was fairly good throughout (it did die occasionally in less populated areas since it relies on cell towers).

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.

In wireless scenarios, that capacity will be split between all users on a cell tower.

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.

Macro Cell: The equipment installed on a cell tower that is upwards of 300 feet in height, sometimes with multiple cellular carriers» antennas; macro cells have a 1 - to 20 - mile range.

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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.

«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.

Please read TFA before commenting on just this quote (the analogy has to do with Taliban blowing up cell towers).

#Irma has snapped all the cell towers on #Barbuda.

On the tiny island of Barbuda — where the hurricane first made landfall — cell towers snapped under the force of 185 - mile per hour winds, cutting off communication.

Less so is its reliance on TV towers rather than the cell ones that are tomorrow's money spinners.

Cell tower operator Crown Castle International (NYSE: CCI) reported first - quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday.

A source familiar with the matter said the cell tower addresses were being sent to Google after a change in early 2017 to the Firebase Cloud Messaging service, which is owned by Google and runs on Android phones by default.

Follow the lights on the cell phone towers, he told them, and you will find it.

Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»

Changing technology has the Amherst Town Board considering a moratorium on the installation of new cell towers, including newer «small cell» systems on utility poles.

One Tedisco bill (A. 9608 / S.7279), is an amendment to enable the Town of Clifton Park to lease a cell phone tower on a light pole at the Clifton Common town park.

Hinson also indicated that getting a cell tower up and running in Gardiner as soon as possible is high on his list of priorities.

It sites two somewhat shorter cell towers on town - owned properties: one on the grounds of Town Hall near the center of the hamlet and another behind the Town Highway Garage on South Mountain Road.

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 commission is suggesting that the cell tower be erected on another town - owned property outside the historic district.

Southold Town's Historic Preservation Commission is expected to discuss a code amendment proposal with the town board on Tuesday that would permit cell towers on historic sites.

Irregular background noise, wind and variable distance from mouth to microphone all make transcription perfection on a cell phone a towering task — and the results are much less accurate than what you would get using PC dictation software, which faces none of those difficulties.

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.

A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.

Pili fibers are towers of interlocking blocks of cells, stacked so that a dangling tail on each block fits neatly into a groove in the block below it.

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.

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Here is some advice on how to protect your home from the incoming radio waves from the cell phone towers nearby, and from the neighbors:

«The short of it was we won on the alibi issue, and the other issue, the cell tower issue, was reversed,» he explained.

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.

Experts working on new social networking map apps, Wi - Fi and cell tower experts, and old - school amateur radio operators are all working to help Filipinos cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.

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.

This will occur after Tmo rolls out another cell tower upgrade ON TOP of the just recently upgraded 4g.

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.

If you did a IP trace on me you would see that I am making this post from a smartphone on T - Mobile's Network and because I work at T - Mobile I would show you in SAMSON that this post was originated from a Tmobile cell tower on top of my store that I manage.

There have been many discussions about why not calling Amazon, and let them help you since it's an electronic device, the next time it is turned on or synched with the server they can do something like either (a) send a message to whoever is holding the Kindle, or (b) use the cell tower's GPS to give an idea where it is.

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).

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.

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.

If any of this sounds familiar, that'd be because you are already playing it on a micro level on your cell phone or in your browser — Horde mode just got a dash of Tower Defense.

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.

The towers are assembled from precast concrete panels and columns that are tied together on - site by cables to form hexagon - shaped cells.

When one understands the huge number of cell towers, NEXRAD, and such devices as SBX1 and the use of microwave energy to manipulate entire weather systems, satellites, and others nations doing same, it stands to reason the atmosphere and all life on earth is run through and through with a technology that is slowly killing life.