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By Jonathan Kramer, on January 12th, 2012% Bright House, a major cable TV “multiple system operator” (MSO) is joining other cable operators by deploying 2,000 WiFi nodes in its Florida systems. Following the usual MSO model, Bright House is offering its service for fee to its subscribers, and on a paid basis to others. It seems likely that BelAir Networks will be . . . → Read More: DAS Beware of Bright House’s Bright Idea
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 2nd, 2012% Last month I traveled to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico to participate on a wireless law panel and to visit with friends. While there I had a chance to take a series of new site photos in Santa Fe, and to add to the Twisted Tower photo collection.
Here are a few examples that . . . → Read More: New Photos in Cell Tower Gallery
By Jonathan Kramer, on December 28th, 2011%
Published in today’s AGL DAS Bulletin: “Predictions 2012: DAS All Folks!” by yours truly.
If you’re in cable TV industry, the wireless industry, or the DAS industry, you may be surprised by my predictions about the intersection of cable TV and wireless services, and the potential impact on DAS. You may even agree!
http://www.agl-mag.com/newsletter/DB122811_Kramer.htm
. . . → Read More: DAS All Folks!
By Jonathan Kramer, on December 24th, 2011% Camouflaging a wireless site is not simply about hiding the antennas. Sometimes its about designing and locating the panel antenna enclosure to fit the existing architectural surroundings. Here’s an example at the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall in, of all places, Scottsdale, Arizona (I was in Scottsdale a few days ago on business).
The antenna panels . . . → Read More: Simple Stylish Scottsdale Site
By Jonathan Kramer, on September 25th, 2011% Coming to (or already arrived at) a utility pole really near you in Southern California… Time Warner’s new WiFi system!
With $15M of new strand-mounted WiFi access point equipment supplied by BelAir Networks, this new network is apparently intended to provided wide area WiFi coverage in TWC’s service areas.
Presently, TWC’s SoCal deployment is spotty . . . → Read More: TWC Deploys WiFi in SoCal
By Jonathan Kramer, on April 15th, 2011% Today’s (4/15/11) AGL Bulletin carries a buried-lead story about Sprint’s deployment of new, flexible base stations that are multi-modal, multi-band, and potentially multi-user.
Faced with Data Surge, Carriers to ‘Feed the Beast’ with Base Station Innovation
Noting the importance of scale, spectrum and innovation, representatives of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire discussed how the growth of . . . → Read More: When (Wireless) Worlds Collide…Will Site Landlords Get $quashed?
By Jonathan Kramer, on February 26th, 2011% Bell Labs has unveiled its lightRadio cell site in a cube system. It’s received a lot of press from around the world over the past few weeks about it being ‘THE NEXT BIG THINK TO KILL OFF TRADITIONAL CELL SITES.’
Well, maybe not.
Digging a bit deeper into the apparent technology underpinning the system produces . . . → Read More: lightRadio? Really?!
By Jonathan Kramer, on February 16th, 2011% On January 10, Lori and Michael DiMarco of the Long Island Town of Brookhaven, New York found that they had a new neighbor in front of their home; a 40 foot tall black wireless antenna pole.
Who would perpetrate such a dastardly deed? Who’s construction crew allegedly lied to the homeowner about what was being . . . → Read More: ‘Mr. Gorbachev tear down this NextG pole!’
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 25th, 2011%
According to the Associated Press, the plan for a 200′ tall cell tower intended to live in a Ellisville, Mississippi cemetery has died.
Proposed by Cellular South, and agreed to by the Ellisville zoning board, the City Council of Ellisville killed the tower project due to citizen concerns.
No, I don’t know if the . . . → Read More: Cell Tower Dies in Cemetery
By Jonathan Kramer, on January 14th, 2011% March 3, 2011: 2 hour live teleconference 1 pm ET (12 pm CT, 11 am MT, 10 am PT)
Teleconference Highlights:
The wireless industry has built more than 250,000 cell sites in the United States in the past 20 years. But many more cell sites are needed as iPhones, iPads and the like strain existing . . . → Read More: Current Issues in Cell Tower Leases
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