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Protected: Client Report: Important Deployment Update

August 28th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments

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Tags: Legal · PCS/Cellular Sites · Site Planning · WiFi/WiMax · Wireless Related · Wireless Site Design

Verizon Hub So Much More Than A Terminal

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Verizon’s new “HUB” device (pictured below) is starting to get some wings.  Specifically, Verizon has inked a deal with Time Inc. so that “Verizon Hub users can now view short-form videos from brands like People.com®, TIME.com®, and RealSimple.com® from Time Inc. brands by simply touching the screen on the Verizon Hub.”
This move make sense from [...]

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Tags: Femtocells · MCF Communications · Verizon

Kramer: Ahhh-uhhhh-ahhhh-da-da-da

January 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Yes, that’s your host imitating the sound you hear in an A.M. radio when your cell phone is on and is near the radio.
I was interviewed last year by O’Reilly Media’s James Turner.  He has an Apple I-Phone which he’s not too happy with.  He interviewed me regarding that buzzing you hear when you place [...]

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Tags: AT&T Wireless · iPhone

Does your cell phone give away your location?

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

That’s a common question, and the simple answer is, ’sometimes yes; sometime no.’
Cell phones regularly transmit update information back to the mobile telephone switching office (MTSO).  This data is sent when you turn on your phone, at regular intervals while the phone is turned on but not in use, and when you turn off your [...]

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Tags: Legal · Wireless Related · Wireless Site Design

Apple iPhone Field Test Mode

February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You know you want it.
You know you need it.
Yeah, it’s the secret FIELD TEST menu buried deep inside your Apple iPhone. Once you reach the menu by ‘dialing’ the code *3001#12345#* and then pressing the send button, you find yourself facing the top level menu of the test mode.
The photo to the left is [...]

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Tags: AT&T Wireless · General · iPhone

Starbucks to Serve New Wifi Beans

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

AT&T will apparently displace T-Mobile as Starbuck’s WiFi provider of choice.
It’s interesting to note that AT&T will give its broadband and U-Verse customers free access at any WiFi-equipped Starbucks, but that’s apparently not true for AT&T’s wireless customers.
AT&T will also provide a flat rate access to its business class customer as part of the deal, [...]

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Tags: T-Mobile · WiFi/WiMax · Wireless Related

Manchester, Maine Town Meeting result: No Tower

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

This evening, the residents of Manchester, Maine voted at a Town Meeting to reject the proposed settlement with MCF Communications. At the same meeting, the residents voting also approved a moratorium on accepting new cell tower construction applications while the Planning Board reviews Manchester’s cell tower ordinance.
The likely result is that MCF will continue [...]

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Tags: General · Legal · MCF Communications

More on Town of Manchester, Maine asks residents to approve wireless consent agreement and tower moratorium

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

There is a follow-up story in today’s Kennebec Journal regarding the Town of Manchester’s Town Meeting. Here’s a link to the story: CLICK HERE.

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Tags: General · Legal · MCF Communications

Town of Manchester, Maine asks residents to approve wireless consent agreement and tower moratorium

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments

The Town of Manchester, Maine will hold an open town hall meeting on January 29, 2008 to decide whether to settle a law suit brought against it by MCF Communications and also whether to adopt a “Tower Moratorium Ordinance” for six months.
The interesting feature of this story is that the elected officials are asking the [...]

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Tags: General · Legal · MCF Communications

NextG Networks Sues Huntington Beach, California

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments

NextG Networks of California, Inc, a provider of Distributed Antenna Site (DAS) wireless sites has sued the City of Huntington Beach. The suit, filed on December 27, 2007 in the Central District of California (Santa Ana district) bears case number SACV07-1471. The hearing is scheduled for February 7, 2008.
If you don’t have access to [...]

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Tags: DAS · Legal · NextG Networks