Paul Krzyzanowski of the Canadian Stem Cell Network covered that meeting for the Signals blog.
The growing number of Wi-Fi devices means that consumers can decide themselves whether to use Wi-Fi instead of the regular cell network.
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In tandem with the smartphone and tablet program, the Army also is testing gear that allows operators to deploy a makeshift cell network.
The U.S. military also announced the Wednesday arrest in northern Arab Jabour of a man described as a foreign fighter who heads a car-bombing cell network.
But none of them yet will allow you to actually use the iPhone on another cell phone network.
Telecom equipment makers and carriers both are working on small-cell enhanced network topologies.
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If you're trying to find the best cell phone network where you live, don't just rely on carrier coverage maps or speed claims -- which are often based on theoretical maximum output from cell towers.
These various compressed formats then support the growing number of distribution channels from traditional cable, satellite, broadcast and digital cinema and increasingly are finding their way into various internet and cell phone network based distribution channels.
What about cell phones, the network for which disappears alarmingly quickly after a black-out?
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C. area service since last April, improving cell sites so its network can handle 37% more data.
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Cellcom's 4G LTE network includes cell sites in Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wausau, Manitowoc and parts of Oconto and Marinette Counties.
In terms of written communication from passengers on the plane to people down below -- e-mail, text messages sent from cell phones, social network posts -- the more the better.
Nicola Palmer, the chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, said the carrier has been taking steps to prepare for new demand, including improving connections between cell towers and its network backbone.
"It may soon be possible for the technical head of household to access the home network with a cell phone, " he said.
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Advanced Info Service (otc: AVIFY - news - people ), Thailand's largest wireless-telecommunications firm, recently announced that it will offer broadcast network television on cell phones.
The wireless chip and technology vendor is betting that if it constructs a nationwide network to stream television over cell phones, cellular carriers will sign on and consumers will clamor for the service.
Seven people were arrested in the U.S., accused of operating the New York cell of what prosecutors said was a network that carried out thefts at ATMs in 27 countries from Canada to Russia.
These gateways attach to existing radio networks, telephones and even cell phones, digitizing conversations over an IP network so that people with different devices--and from different departments--can talk to each other.
It's not reliant on terrestrial cell towers, instead connecting to Iridium's network of 66 low-orbiting satellites.
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However, Sprint recently announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar network upgrade that will replace many existing cell sites with a single cell radio that can be used for its voice and broadband services and that can be used either for WiMAX or LTE.
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When completed, the wireless network will be used for everything from public safety applications to providing a pervasive network for Internet telephony and Wi-Fi cell phones.
If CES 2013 ratified the cell phone as the preferred control point of the personal network, then it also demonstrated how the device pantheon is expanding.
It plans to increase the capacity of its network by adding more than 1, 500 new cell sites nationwide this year.
That was live, loaded over a 3G network, so you notice that even on a cell phone, it's as fast as your PC.
The researchers also are developing protein-network maps for other organisms, including a yeast cell and Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm with some 19, 000 genes, about the same number as humans.
For those who aren't familiar, small cell base stations like femtocells and picocells have been around for years, helping to boost cell signal in small areas by hooking into a local wired network.
These miniature cell sites are placed in homes and office buildings to improve network inbuilding coverage and at the same time off-load some of the voice and broadband traffic from the primary commercial networks.
Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
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