It's not just about speed, though -- the new gear also supports interesting new services, including the ability to notify users when other users (for example, children) have entered the base station's range and reception of time- and location-sensitive coupons directly to phones presently attached to the cell.

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For a time, the outage affected home satellite reception of such Turner Broadcasting networks as CNNfn, CNN International, CNN-Sports Illustrated and the Turner Classic Movies channel.

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Following a navigation system's instructions without driving into a ravine is hard enough as it is -- can you even imagine how hard it'd be if you kept losing GPS reception every time you drove within range of an LTE tower?

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