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Sprint's 'Magic Box' Is An In-Home Small Cell to Help Improve Coverage
... configuring small cell that requires no labor or rental costs. The Magic Box does not connect to an in-home broadband or WiFi network; ...
Feds to Require Warrants for Cellphone Trackers
... dirtboxes, mimic cell towers and can record the data of every cell phone they encounter. The boxes are most often used by federal officers in ...
Judge Says Law Enforcement Needs Warrant to Use Stingrays
... as the cell towers to which the suspect's phone regularly connected. Cell phone towers provide general, but imprecise, location data. The DEA then used a ...
GAO Agrees with FCC: Radiation Limits Need Reexamination
... to tests cell phones today back in 1996. "The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) RF energy exposure limit may not reflect the latest research," concluded the ...
Sprint to Relocate Cell Sites In Bid to Cut Costs
... Sprint leases cell tower access from Crown Castle and American Tower, and lease rates are a significant part of it operational costs. The government does ...
House Approves Cell Ban for All Prisoners
... become law. Cell phones are already banned at prisons, but this new law will make it a punishable crime. State governments have also petitioned the ...
Supreme Court Says Warrant Required for Cell-Based Location Searches
... people via cell phone towers. The 5-4 ruling sided with the defendant in a case where police discovered a suspect's whereabouts through cell ...
White House Wants Better Use of Government Spectrum
... ways to free up 500MHz of spectrum that can be turned over to wireless network operators and used for mobile broadband. This latest effort is ...
Activists Want 'Obsolete' Cell Tower Rules Changed
... to update cell tower safety regulations. Citizens for Health, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and ElectromagneticHealth.org believe the current laws are out-dated ...
Gov to Test Prison Cell Phone Jamming
... of jamming cell phone signals in and near prisons. The test, to take place at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md., is meant to ...
FCC to Review Radiation Guidelines for Cell Phones
... from harmful cell phone radiation. The last time the agency examined its guidelines, which set the maximum amount of radiation that a cell phone may ...
U.S. Lawmakers Want AT&T to Sever All Ties with Huawei
... the U.S. government don't want AT&T and other firms doing business with Huawei, according to Reuters. Unnamed U.S. lawmakers are "urging" AT&T "to cut commercial ...
FCC Wants to Speed Up the Approval Process for 5G Cell Sites
... install new cell sites. Local government can impede progress by denying permission to put up new sites for any number of reasons. Since future 5G ...
FEMA to Ping US Cell Phones In Test of 'Presidential Alert'
Most cell phones in the U.S. will receive a pair of emergency alerts, sent via text message, on Wednesday, Oct. 3. The messages are part ...
MagicJack Announces Plug And Play Femto Cell
... agnostic femto cell that will provide unlimited wireless calling for just $20 per year. MagicJack says that GSM-based cell phones can connect to ...
U.S. Gov Wants to Track Pre-Paid Phones
...-paid cell phones. The bill would require buyers of pre-paid cell phones to show proof of identity when purchasing new phones, and ...
Judge Asks Apple to Help Unlock iPhone, Apple Balks
... of the government's demands are chilling," said Cook. "If the government can use the All Writs Act (from 1789) to make it easier to unlock ...
Republican Senators Want It to Be Illegal for US Gov to Use Huawei or ZTE Equipment
... the U.S. government from using telecommunications equipment from either Huawei or ZTE. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton and Florida Senator Marco Rubio proposed the bill, citing ...
Government Shutdown Could Delay New Phone Launches
... if the government shutdown continues. 83% of FCC employees will be furloughed, including those that issue the approval of new phones. Such approval is legally ...
Justice Department to Reveal More About Dirtboxes
... data on cell phones. The government uses dirtboxes in two specific ways. First, it sweeps large areas for the phones of suspected criminals from an ...
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