As fireworks light up the night sky, you might wonder if the dazzling displays could interfere with your cell phone signals. After all, modern technology and vibrant pyrotechnics both rely on waves and signals. But can these two really clash? Let's dive into the science behind fireworks and cell phone signals to find out.
Showing posts with label Understanding Wireless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Understanding Wireless. Show all posts
Advantages of In-Building Wireless Solutions in Work Environments
In a versatile world, it just bodes well to
have better wireless and remote correspondences inside our places of business
and other different structures. However, very frequently, remote gadgets work
ineffectively – or don’t function in any manner at all – inside business work
environments, even in the event in-building remote solutions have already been
introduced.
As of now, the desire for "consistently
on networks” is very strong. The most recent advances and issues in technology
have already been revealed – words such as narrowbanding, 4G and work systems –
however the fundamental concern now is getting progressively business buildings
to change over to remote connections.
WHY ARE IN-BUILDING WIRELESS SERVICES
NEEDED?
At the point remote radio-frequency (RF)
signals go through a material, for example, a block or drywall, they lose their
quality. RF conveyance frameworks are utilized to keep signals powerful and
strong within buildings.
In-building wireless (IBW) solutions need a
couple of fundamental parts. To start with, one would need a donor receiving
wire, which is generally fitted on the rooftop. A bidirectional RF amplifier
enables signals to come in and go out, which helps the force for both the
downlink and uplink roads.
In the end, the links work as a solitary
receiving wire or are bugged down the track by numerous antennas as a feature
of a disseminated radio wire framework. At best, the reception wires are
obvious from each spot clients will require them at, in spite of the fact that
RF signals can go through a couple of drywall dividers and still function
admirably.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF IN-BUILDING WIRELESS SERVICES AT WORK?
In any case, various advantages are driving
the most recent flood of IBW frameworks. Some of these benefits are given
below.
For business structures, the greatest benefit
is the employee versatility, which can boost working performances for
prospective customers, for example, medical clinic nurses or even instructors
and understudies at schools.
In-building
wireless services are capable of totally
changing the work environment of a business. Proprietors of commercial
buildings have utilized IBW as an approach to separate their assets and to
improve inhabitant maintenance.
IBW additionally decreases requirements of a
cable system, which can enhance activities and style in numerous offices while
reducing expenses at the same time.
Remote connections can be incorporated with
safety and other plans of insurance.
Open-to-public security communities of people
are remunerating IBW selection, and back up plans have started offering
discounts for property-and-loss insurance, as of late, to building proprietors
with indoor remote interchanges.
IBW is known to have a great impact on
responses to fires and life security.
The remote framework guarantees almost full
coverage for audio, information, and crisis correspondences in every aspect of
the building. This does not exclude lifts, staircases, and a parking structure
broadening five levels underneath the main level.
At the end of the day, regardless of whether
it's upgrading or creating an entirely new development, it is now understood
that remote and wireless solutions are the most recent 'must-have' enhancements
in the business land industry.
Why The FCC is One Big Puppet Show
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| 10 Reasons Why the FCC is a Joke |
Despite the enforcement "lip service" you hearing from FCC Chairman Genachowski and Commissioners in the media about net neutrality or the big merger, the FCC is not working for you the consumer and are simply puppets of the carriers. Here are two very important reasons why it's a failed organizational structure. #1) The FCC refuses to publicly acknowledge or regulate the difference between actual vs theoretical cellular/broadband coverage and therefore cannot accurately enforce competition. #2) 99% of their $500M of annual funding for 1,900 employees does not come from the taxpayers and comes directly from fees paid by the carriers themselves.
One of the biggest arguments in the AT&T and T-Mobile merger is that there is sufficient wireless competition and rural coverage and therefore the merger of two large carriers should be allowed. We would argue this is totally false and we can provide thousands of consumer-reported examples of where consumers can only get one carrier and sometimes 0 in certain cases. Competition isn't fair on a regional basis and must be carefully audited by the FCC before allowing the merger to go through. However, the FCC can't do this because they lack the resources to do it and continue to ignore the dead zone data we generate. This is a huge failure on the part of the Government and will come back and bite all consumers if this continues.
DeadCellZones.com has reached out to the FCC for help numerous times over the last decade and asked them to take our consumer-reported dead zone data for free. However, the FCC would rather "try" and generate their own data to mask the problems so they don't piss off their carrier constituencies. So what did the FCC do? They responded by launching their own FCC "Dead Zones" reporting website a 10 years later which has failed miserably. However, their dead zone reporting tool was "designed to fail" because the FCC doesn't really want to know the truth or regulate the wireless carriers' false coverage claims.
Folks it gets even weirder with some questions that were asked of us by FCC executives. They asked us "why we have created dead zone the maps"? My answer is always because its the right thing to do by showing the deficiencies of a Government agency that doesn't really work on the consumer's behalf to regulate. It was the aha moment for me to show there is way too much corruption between the FCC and the companies they regulate. We won't stop what we are doing until the Government and the carriers themselves acknowledge why and what we are doing is good for consumers. A little like "David vs Goliath".
The FCC is a "Government-regulated entity" that is funded by the companies they are supposed to be regulating and not the taxpayers. Its a huge corrupt game the public does not understand and the financial media ignores. The FCC has 1,900 employees and is supposed to act as an "independent agency" of the US government with an approximate budget of $466 million which is funded by measly $1 million in taxpayer appropriations and the rest in regulatory fees paid by the largest US telecom companies: AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), T-Mobile (NYSE: DTEGY), Sprint (NYSE: S), Cox, Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), TimeWarner (NYSE: TWX), Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), etc. The mission of every employee at the FCC is to write policy but does that really regulate if no one does anything or takes action? Does this sound like an independent agency or a puppet agency with 99% of its' revenue coming from the companies it regulates?
AT&T is claiming this based on theoretical coverage maps not actual coverage that real customers try and receive. The reason Deadcellzones.com was started almost 12 years ago was that carriers were being dishonest about where they were providing coverage. In this decade coverage and speeds have expanded a lot but the same problem still exists. No entity is auditing the coverage maps and the actual coverage that the carriers claim to provide. This lack of oversight only hurts the smaller consumer who lives out in the middle of Iowa or Kansas in rural America.
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10 Reasons Why Text Messaging is a Scam
Have you ever sent a text to someone and its not received or delayed by a few hours? Do you wonder why text messaging is so expensive when email is free? Its one of the biggest scams in US history and the FTC and FCC can do nothing about it because there are very few alternatives.
At current data plan rates mobile phone consumers are paying $1,300 per megabyte for this service. Consumers are paying $5-$20 per month or hundreds of dollars per year in some cases with lots of overage charges. We estimate that consumers are paying Verizon & AT&T $10 billion each per year for text messaging services. AT&T and Verizon each generate $100+ billion per year and revenue and text messaging is a big chunk of it. The money goes right to the bottom line and is sent directly to AT&T and Verizon shareholders as dividends. Text messaging is the most profitable line of business for carriers with nearly 99% margins it seems.
Carriers can charge you upwards of $20 for 1,500 text messages or even $5 for 200 messages. Not only is this a ripoff but you get charged .35 to .50 cents per message that you go over your plan without any carryover. Do you ever wonder why email is free and text messaging is not? Free text messaging is a growing trend and will likely get even bigger as the carrier giants AT&T and Verizon continue to ripoff their customers. However, there are solutions out there to the problem including Google Voice free text message. Free text mess
1) Delayed text messages without explanation
2) No confirmation if message was received
3) No confirmation if text message was read
4) No receipts or guarantee of delivery
5) $5 - $20 for 200 to 2000 messages
6) You are paying $1,300 per megabyte for text that is easy to move through the network
7) No ways to prevent spam from reaching you
8) Spam still costs YOU money against your plan
9) .25 cents to .50 cents for going over your text messaging plan
10) No carryover for text messages not used
Taxes on Your Cell Phone Bill
Consumers are paying an average of $7.67 per month on their cell phone bill taxes per month. Did you know that cell phone state tax rates range from 5% to 20% per month depending on where your cell phone bill is sent? That is approximately $92 per year for the average cell phone bill which is $47.21 per month. All together US consumers per $26,875,860,000 in total taxes from mobile phone customer each each by AT&T and Verizon. No wonder AT&T and Verizon are the largest donors to Congress because it appears that its one big ponzi scheme. We look for companies like Google to come into the market in the near future and provide advertising supported wireless to disrupt this telecom corruption and tax on consumers. See the tax map provided by the TaxFoundation.org.
AT&T Steals $1 Billion from Customers in Illegal Taxes
Verizon Steals $93.5M From Taxpayers with Fake Surcharges & Taxes
Cell Phone State Tax Rates Are Ridiculous
Americans are now being paying an average of 16.26% tax on monthly cell phone bill. Depending on the state that number can shoot up as high as 23.69%. Each month, the talking tax is silently imposing on America's wireless customers, and unless legislative action is taken the rates go go even higher. The highest states are Nebraska, Washington, New York, Florida and Illinois. All the more reasons to start using free wireless whenever possible and dump your data plans because Wi-Fi competes with 4G LTE. On top of these ridiculously expensive tax rates AT&T & Verizon are the most expensive carriers by far compared with wireless carriers around the world. Not only do you pay high taxes each month but your data plans are funding two of the highest paying dividend companies on Wall Street. See the tax map provided by the TaxFoundation.org.
Android is for Touch Computing & Chrome is for Netbooks & PCs
Android and Chrome (OS) operating systems are both Linux-based operating systems. However, Android is designed for touch computing on phones & tablets while the Chrome OS is for Netbooks. Both operating systems focus on security and use a common set of methods to make them more secure they call "sand boxing". Here are some ways each are different yet complimentary and will change security, browsing and mobile application development.
The Android operating system is designed mostly for touch computing and will work on screens that range in size for 3 inches to 12 inches and don't have keyboards. The Android marketplace has application written for the operating system in the marketplace for download. How long will the marketplace last as Chrome becomes more popular and the cloud become the computing standard for mobile. I think the days are number for the iPhone App Store and the Android Marketplace as the mobile web becomes a seamless browsing experience.
What Does LTE Stand For?
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| LTE = Long Term Evolution |
LTE and is part of the GSM evolutionary path beyond 3G technology, following EDGE, UMTS, HSPA (HSDPA and HSUPA combined) and HSPA Evolution (HSPA+). LTE is a set of enhancements to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) which was introduced in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8. HSPA Evolution is a stepping-stone of speeds to LTE for many carriers that will be rolled out slowly. Carriers began working on LTE in 2004 3GPP and the initial deployment of LTE is targeted for 2010 and 2011. The objective of LTE is to provide a high-performance radio access that offers good signal coverage in vehicles that are moving and that can coexist with HSPA and earlier networks. Carriers can scale bandwidth to migrate their networks and users from HSPA to LTE over time in areas that need it most.
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How Each Carrier Defines 4G
4G is as confusing as ever to the average consumer. Verizon and MetroPCS are launching their 4G LTE network and three out of the four major US carrier Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile promote the fastest 4G data networks. However, each company defines 4G differently and none of them meet International Telecommunication Union standards. The ITU defines 4G as a connection capable of 100 mbps to 1 gbps. The cellular data network's 4G speeds don't even come close to this and the only marketing thing each carrier seems to agree upon is that 4G is just what comes after 3G. While the title of 4G isn't accurate by International Standards is meaningless the carriers now have created a new step of planned obsolescence. Here is an article from Life Hacker which will try to simply each offering. Read More.
Does AT&T Have WiFi Calling?
Yes, AT&T offers Wi-Fi calling as a feature for its customers. Wi-Fi calling allows you to make and receive calls over a Wi-Fi network instead of using the cellular network. This feature can be particularly useful in areas with weak cellular coverage or when traveling internationally.
To use Wi-Fi calling on AT&T, you need a compatible device and an active AT&T wireless plan that supports Wi-Fi calling. Most recent smartphones and some older models are compatible with Wi-Fi calling on the AT&T network.
How to enable Wi-Fi calling on an iPhone:
- Go to the Settings app.
- Select "Phone" or "Cellular."
- Look for the "Wi-Fi Calling" option and toggle it on.
To enable Wi-Fi calling on an Android device, the steps may vary depending on the device model and Android version. However, the general process involves:
- Open the Phone app.
- Access the settings or menu within the app.
- Look for the "Wi-Fi Calling" or "Call Settings" option.
- Enable Wi-Fi calling and follow any prompts to set it up.
It's worth noting that Wi-Fi calling uses your Wi-Fi network to establish the call, but it still uses your cellular plan minutes. If you have an unlimited talk and text plan, the calls made through Wi-Fi calling are typically included and do not incur additional charges. However, if you have a limited talk plan, the minutes used for Wi-Fi calling will be deducted from your plan's allotment.
If you're unsure about the availability of Wi-Fi calling on your specific device or plan, it's recommended to check with AT&T directly or visit their website for the most accurate and up-to-date information.
What Does G Stand For in 4G?
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| 4G = 4th Generation Data Network |
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