reception
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Ask Giz: Why Can’t I Get Reception in an Elevator?
Ask Giz is our fortnightly series where we answer your weird and wonderful questions. Today: Why you can’t get reception in an elevator.
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What The World Would Look Like If You Could See Mobile Phone Signals
There are thousands of invisible signals bouncing around us all the time, and the world would be a very different place if we could see them. Visualiser extraordinaire Nickolay Lamm already showed us what the Wi-Fi noise would look like, and now he’s back to illuminate the cell phone signals all around us. It’s trippy.
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Reason For Bad Signal #37: You’re In A Faraday Cage Fight
Dammit, it’s hard to get a decent mobile data connection sometimes. Are the walls thick in your building? Are you surrounded by exotic electrical equipment that’s causing interference? Or did you just stumble into a cage fight by accident?
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Verizon’s LTE Services Goes Down For The First Time
It’s been several hours according to Verizon Wireless customers (some of whom work for your favourite tech site), but Verizon’s LTE service shows no sign of going back up. All over the US there have been confirmed outages, with some also reporting their 3G network is down also.