"Where the cell sites ought to be is where the people are, " he said.
Fewer cell sites are needed to cover a given area and it penetrates buildings better.
C. area service since last April, improving cell sites so its network can handle 37% more data.
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Other temporary cell sites are on standby to be deployed to the area.
Higher frequency spectrum is the winner in this battle when combined with lots of pico and nano cell sites.
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It plans to increase the capacity of its network by adding more than 1, 500 new cell sites nationwide this year.
Part of the problem is that in order to provide additional capacity they need to build more cell sites, closer.
Additional cell sites in Northeast and Central Wisconsin will light up throughout 2012 as the company continues its 4G rollout.
Clearwire also has established cell sites for its system and the cost of adding LTE to these sites should be reasonable.
With the merger, you get an immediate benefit with more cell sites.
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He trained in a company teetering on the edge, piling up suicidal levels of debt to fund a rapid-fire rollout of cell sites.
Another difference is that with the Clearwire flavor of LTE, the cell sites and devices will operate in a single block of spectrum.
Cellcom's 4G LTE network includes cell sites in Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Wausau, Manitowoc and parts of Oconto and Marinette Counties.
At higher frequencies, the signals are best used when combined with closely spaced cell sites that can serve streaming video and data very efficiently.
In addition, the city's density poses extraordinary challenges for readying cell sites with backup power and then getting them back online when outages happen.
In analog cellular days every phone had an external antenna, this gave the device better range when it was communicating with the cell sites.
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Google preaches that all we need to do to add more wireless capacity is to build cell sites closer together and that will solve the capacity issues.
In the short run, carriers have taken steps to manage spectrum more efficiently by splitting cell sites, offloading traffic onto local WiFi connections and upgrading back-haul networks.
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Only a week or so later, the East Coast was hit with a hurricane and according to the FCC, more than 6, 500 cell sites were knocked out of service.
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Customers grandfathered into such plans can see their speeds throttled back if they are among the top 5% of users in areas where cell sites are congested, a spokeswoman said.
The carrier is redirecting cell sites in New Jersey to serve lower Manhattan and planned to have a temporary cell site in Liberty State Park in New Jersey on line by 10 p.m.
This arrangement is designed to help Sprint consolidate its cell sites and install common equipment that will enable operations on its three different portions of spectrum with a common cell site radio system.
Overall, the Federal Communications Commission said that by Thursday morning 19% of the cell sites in areas affected by the storm still faced outages, down from one in four sites earlier in the week.
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.
In a talk last week, Clearwire laid out a hunker down strategy of not building too many more cell sites until its reimbursement negotiations with Sprint are ironed out and its cash flow improves.
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So while the phone may have GSM network access on shore (because no CDMA signal is found), that is not the case when you are on a ship because ships provide both GSM and CDMA cell sites.
Once you house an antenna structure inside of an aluminum body, you also have shadowing effects to overcome, this is caused by the metal body affecting the radiated signal, as well as the inbound signals from the cell sites.
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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