Mobile

Your Phone’s Accelerometer Could Make Mobile Broadband Faster

MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan thinks wireless carriers aren’t using their networks in the most efficient way possible when it comes to mobile broadband, resulting in slower speeds. His solution involves using your phone’s accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer and GPS.


October 8, 2009

You Always Wanted A Mobile Tower In Your Backyard, Right?

While disappointing carriers in the US by reiterating the FCC is all about net neutrality, chairman Julius Genachowski also offered them some consolation: To get more 4G goodness in the air, the FCC’s going to a “shot clock” style rollout for mobile towers.