Sentences with phrase «with cell towers»

The radios on a device use a large amount of power, communicating with cell towers, scanning for and connecting to nearby Wi - Fi networks, waiting for incoming Bluetooth connections, and occasionally checking your location via GPS.

Cell phones typically operate on land - based systems that work when the phone can be in contact with cell towers.

Sprint signed new long - term contracts with cell tower companies to facilitate its build - out.

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.

I stress the «theoretically» part as it doesn't work all of the time and I have experienced it, also, despite synching the Kindle with a cell tower or the Amazon server.

«When we communicate with a cell tower or Wi - Fi router, so much energy goes to waste,» explained Chi - Chih Chen, research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Cell phones have always been trackable by virtue of their essential communication with cell tower sites...

Negotiated lease terms, rent, and entitlements with cell tower companies and private landlords

«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.

He recommends that whenever brokers look at a property with a cell tower, they should ask, «Are you still receiving revenue?»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The company was able to match Android phones with various cell towers to triangulate a phone's location, according to a Quartz investigation.

The close concentration of urban dwellers, combined with plummeting hardware costs and the overlapping layers of wireless data that accompany us — beamed from cell towers, pulsing from Wi - Fi hot spots, radiating from smartphones in our pockets — has made it easier than ever before to track, sort, manage and organize things in a city setting.

«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 effoWith 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 effowith their loved ones — and it's harder for rescue workers to coordinate relief efforts.

StingRay (also known as «Hailstorm» or «TriggerFish») is an «IMSI catcher» basically acts like a cell phone tower, and sends out signals which force cell phones to ping them back with information showing their owner's location and other identifying information.

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

More interesting, he said, would be working with organizations like police or fire services to station fleets of drones — similar to how you have cell towers today — to help facilitate their work.

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.

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.

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

Glaser also said mobile phone companies were asked to bring in cell towers to help with lost reception in the rural pockets of the Catskills and the North Country who lost service.

You add to that that cell towers go down, you had satellite phones with us that couldn't reach a satellite signal, you've got to look at a way to get better communication between the local governments and the state and among the state.»

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.

With computers crashing and cell towers dropping offline, all of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties in California are instantly cut off from the outside world, so nobody beyond the immediate area knows how bad it is here or how widespread the damage.

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.

All you need are: exactly the right elements in the right amounts, heated to 1337.15 K and poured into a mold, with batteries charged, lumens added, and the final product synchronized to a cell tower.

«We never really think about it with a cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»

«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.

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.

It's that same kind of morning as well — warm and cool, four - dimensionally blue, girded with arches of towering light — the kind of perfect fall morning that New Yorkers of a certain generation will always associate with disbelief and poor cell phone reception and showstopping acts of mass murder.

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.

In addition, we are dealing with environmental radiation and electromagnetic stressors from our portable devices and cell towers.

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.

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.

GPS - With geolocation by GPS, wifi, or cell tower, the Google Maps app, and the built - in compass, the iPhone is a powerful wayfinding device.

I live in a mountainous state with spotty cell phone reception in the mountains and valleys; it doesn't help that this is a sparsely populated state, so towers are generally found in the larger cities and towns.

He also carries the last possession his father could leave him from his tower cell, a stunning emerald with historic implications.

Think of it as the limbs connecting AT&T's cell towers with AT&T's backbone network that provides access to the Internet.

It's All About Power The primary cause of dropped calls is low signal output power from the cell phone to the cell tower, which limits the phone's ability to communicate with the tower.

Enjoy Premium Reception and Fewer Dropped Calls Living or working in an area with limited cell phone coverage, which is caused by natural and man - made obstructions or by living out of range from a cell phone tower, you know how frustrating weak reception can be.

The primary cause of dropped calls is low signal output power from the cell phone to the cell tower, which limits the phone's ability to communicate with the tower.

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).

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.

Today the four - storey tower is simply a reminder of the grand church which once stood here and is surrounded by the ruins of eight chapels, four altars, a convent which still has visible cells and numerous tombstones with legible carvings.

News Dead Cells» producer says the rogue - lite started with a tower defense aspect before influences from TF2 and fighting games seeped in.

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.

The authors of the study estimate that all bird fatalities from wind turbines range from 214,000 to 368,000 annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers, 1.4 to 3.7 billion fatalities from cats, and of the many other, much larger threats that birds face today.

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.