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AT&T to test in-home cell phone boosters next year (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech (flag)
tech.yahoo.com — NEW YORK - AT Inc ., the country's largest wireless carrier, is testing a technology that can improve the signal available to cell phones in subscribers' homes, and plans to make it available in a trial market next year. John Stankey, chief executive of AT 's Operations division, said Tuesday ...

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AT&T Testing Femtocells
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... Today, 1:29 PM by Eric M. Zeman AT is currently testing femtocell products and hopes to have them in trial markets by next year. Femotcells are connected to a home's broadband Internet connection and boost in-home cellular wireless signals where it otherwise might be weak or lacking. Sprint debuted such a product and service, called the Airave, earlier this year. AT didn't say which hardware manufacturer would make its femtocell, nor what sort of rate plans it would provide. more info at Yahoo / AP ...

AT&T testing Femtocells to boost in-home cell phone signals
Between the Lines — ... A while back, my family and I were living in a Silicon Valley neighborhood that hugged some rolling foothills. While the view was scenic, the cell phone signal in the house was horrible. In fact, the only way I could even use my cell phone was to literally go out into the middle of our street and stand on top of the manhole cover. (Don’t ask me how I discovered this. i just know that it worked.) Now, AT&T  is testing a new technology that would boost in-home cell phone signals and could roll it out in trial markets as early as next year. The signal boosts comes from ...

AT&T utilizará femtocells para dar mayores y mejores servicios
Celularis — ... , ahora AT&T instalará celdas de femtocells en la casa de algunos miles de abonados a partir del segundo trimestre del próximo año. ...

AT&T to trial 3G femtocells next year - In-home cell towers coming to AT&T
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... in Sprint’s footsteps, AT&T is preparing to introduce their own femtocell solution in limited trials next year. John Stankey, chief executive of AT&T’s Operations division, says that AT&T’s GSM femtocell will one-up Sprint’s CDMA solution with its support for 3G voice and data communication. Support for 3G cellular communication may just bring femtocells into the mainstream, assuming AT&T’s trials pan out. [Via: AP] Related News from IntoMobile: Sprint Airave femto-cell on ...

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AT&T to test in-home cellphone boosters next year
www.usatoday.com 12/10/2008 — John Stankey, chief executive of AT&T's Operations division, said Tuesday that the company is testing so-called "femtocells" in employees' homes, and is looking at a broader, city-sized test with customers in the second quarter. Femtocells are small ...
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tech.yahoo.com 12/1/2008 — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive. Tiny fuel cells , powered by combustible liquids or ...
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Review: Digital frame shows pictures from phones (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech
tech.yahoo.com 11/7/2008 — NEW YORK - Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are. It's ...
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RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech
tech.yahoo.com 10/3/2008 — NEW YORK - A delayed top-of-the-line BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd . is still undergoing testing by AT Inc ., and RIM's co-CEO implied that the carrier wants to avoid the chorus of complaints about performance that greeted the new ...
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First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech
tech.yahoo.com 12/5/2008 — LOS ANGELES - The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night. Two satellite glitches blacked out the broadcast to theaters in Boston, New York and Los Angeles in the first half of the game between the ...
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Co. buys back Bush library domain name for $35K (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech
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FCC approves Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel (AP) by AP: Yahoo! Tech
tech.yahoo.com 11/4/2008 — WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are signing off on Verizon Wireless ' planned $28 billion purchase of Alltel Corp . The deal will create the nation's largest wireless carrier. In a 5-0 vote with partial dissents by both Democrats on the panel, the ...
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