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4 unusual facts about Wireless


Cwm Dyli

Electricity produced here was also used to power the Long Wave Wireless Telegraph transmitting station built by Marconi in 1912 near Waunfawr.

IFAST

This organization is the coordinator for the allocation of System Identification Numbers (SID) for wireless communication outside Canada, the United States and territories, and on the assignment of International Roaming mobile identification numbers (MINs), or IRM, for use in cellular mobile devices.

Intel PRO/Wireless

Intel PRO/Wireless is a series of Intel wireless products.

Wireless transmission

Wireless communication, all types of non-wired communication


Acision

Acision was born on February 20, 2007, when LogicaCMG Wireless Networks was sold for £265m (US $525m) to private investors Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries and became known as Acision.

Ashok Chakra Award

2009 – Tukaram Ombale (Maharashtra Police assistant sub-inspector) – Around midnight, a wireless message was flashed that two terrorists were moving towards Marine Drive in a car and Ombale immediately positioned barricades to block its passage.

Capacitor

Leyden jars or more powerful devices employing flat glass plates alternating with foil conductors were used exclusively up until about 1900, when the invention of wireless (radio) created a demand for standard capacitors, and the steady move to higher frequencies required capacitors with lower inductance.

Carl Wieman

He has used and promotes Eric Mazur's "peer instruction", a pedagogical system, where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless "clicker" devices.

Carruthers Beattie

During the Anglo-Boer War in February 1899, he and others demonstrated the application of wireless telegraphy by transmitting signals over a distance of 120 metres on Cape Town's Grand Parade using equipment imported from Britain.

Connect2Media

Through agreements with telephone wireless carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, O2, AT&T, Telefonica and Orange, Connect2Media has a distribution network of over 50 countries.

Container format

Carrier signal format, for holding data during active wireless transmission

Craigmore, South Australia

In the same month, Craigmore was also given ADSL equivalent speed internet through wireless WiMAX.

Diagram of the Heart

They also played the following festivals in 2010: V, Wireless, T in the Park, T4 on the Beach and Bestival.

Digitel

Digitel Wireless, a division of the Digitel Corporation that provides wireless broadband and infrastructure to rural and municipal markets in the United States

Do Not Disturb Registry

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is the Indian governmental agency tasked with defining various policies and regulations for wireless communication service providers in India.

First generation

1G, the first-generation of wireless telephone technology

History of electronic engineering

Regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment commenced in 1922 from the Marconi Research Centre at Writtle near Chelmsford, England.

HP Mini 1000

An 802.11b/g wireless NIC (Broadcom BCM4312) is included for Wi-Fi, while Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a built-in HSDPA modem are options.

Internet in Australia

Wireless broadband in Australia is widespread, with many point-to-point fixed wireless broadband providers serving broadband-poor regional and rural areas, predominantly with Motorola Canopy and WiMAX technologies.

JAUS Tool Set

Present transport options include UDP and TCP in wired or wireless networks, as well as serial connections.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

John Stanton

John W. Stanton, founder and former CEO of Western Wireless Corporation

Kyocera Communications

KCI remains one of North America's larger handset manufacturers, providing products to multiple wireless carriers including Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, MetroPCS, Public Mobile, Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile US, U.S. Cellular, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin Mobile USA.

Marconi Instruments

Companies with "Marconi" in their name can trace their ultimate origins, through mergers and takeovers, to The Marconi Company Ltd., founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company.

Mario A. Rivas

Rivas managed the wireless communications business of Philips Semiconductor as well as its foundry operations, purchasing, and assembly and test with headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Maxis Communications

They offer Prepaid data plans, call plans and SMS plans, Postpaid data plans, call plans and SMS plans, Devices, Wireless Broadband, Fibre Internet, International Roaming, MMS, WAP (over both GSM and GPRS) and Residential Fixed Line services

Military history of New Zealand in World War I

In Mesopotamia the New Zealand troop was amalgamated with the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron, forming "C" Wireless Troop of the Anzac Squadron.

Mobile phone industry in the United States

:Previously a MVNO now complete subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, Virgin Mobile USA provides prepaid wireless service using Sprint's CDMA, WiMAX, and 4G LTE networks.

Mobile security

: With the increasing usage of wireless technologies and devices ( BYOD, MDM,enterprise mobility,...) in the professional organizations, a new range of solutions belonging to the emerging approach of the Mobile Security Management have proposed a comprehensive method to tackle with the various aspects of the mobile security.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.

Novatel Wireless

In June 2009, Virgin Mobile and Novatel jointly announced the start of a pay-as-you go mobile data program called "Broadband2Go" in the United States, using Novatel Wireless hardware, and available exclusively through the Best Buy chain of stores.

Powermat Technologies

In 2011 General Motors announced that it would integrate Powermat's wireless charging technology into certain vehicles in its 2013 Chevrolet Volt line, and would also invest in the private company.

Primus Canada

Primus Canada offers a wide selection of consumer and business telecommunications services available nationwide including Internet, VoIP, Home Phone, Long Distance, Wireless, Hosting, Managed Services and Enterprise IP Telephony.

Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless products and technologies are used in a variety of markets and industries, including automotive and transportation, energy, field service, healthcare, industrial and infrastructure, mobile computing and consumers, networking, sales and payment, and security.

SK Broadband

In February 2008, Hanaro Telecom was acquired by local wireless giant SK Telecom.

Subscriber identity module

The first SIM card was made in 1991 by Munich smart-card maker Giesecke & Devrient, who sold the first 300 SIM cards to the Finnish wireless network operator Radiolinja.

SunNet

SunNet is a North Korean telecommunications company that provides 2G GSM wireless services to the city of Pyongyang.

Surf Communication Solutions

Surf's products enable convergence of voice, video and data across IP, wireline and wireless networks, including 3G-324M mobile.

Tech Coast Angels

MicroPower Technologies - power-efficient wireless video camera technology

TerraNet

TerraNet AB, a Swedish technology company designing peer-to-peer wireless technology

Tom Swift and His Wireless Message

In contrast, in 1912 when the RMS Titanic sank, the wireless operator transmitted their distress in both CQD and SOS formats.

Uninor

Due to the controversy of the 2G license allocation case, Unitech Ltd.'s Managing Director Sanjay Chandra together with the company Unitech Wireless, have come under investigation by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Universal Licensing System

The Universal Licensing System (ULS) is the Federal Communications Commission's online search portal for wireless licensing and research.

Venturi Transport Protocol

The protocol is employed by various wireless broadband internet service providers such as Verizon Wireless and Unwired (Unwired calls the Venturi Client application that provides transparent VTP connectivity the Unwired Optimizer) in order to speed up their network and to overcome latency issues.

Wardenclyffe Tower

Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.

Western Australia border

This expedition, to determine 129° east on the ground, created world-wide scientific interest and involved the cooperation of the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with wireless time signals sent by the French wireless Service, that were transmitted from the Lyons astronomical observatory (Observatoire de Lyon) at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyons, France, between 17 and 24 November 1920.

Wireless Hill Park

Western Australia's first commercial radio station, 6PR, was broadcast from Wireless Hill between 1931 and 1950, relayed from a studio in Barrack Street.

Wireless repeater

Some wireless range extending devices connect via a USB port.

Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006

The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (c 36) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

WMAN

IEEE 802.16, the group preparing formal specifications for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

WWiSE

World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency, an industry group formed espousing an approach to achieving next-generation wireless technologies.

XNS

Ixonos, a mobile wireless software company (stock symbol)

Yi-Bing Lin

Lin is the co-author of three books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (co-author with Imrich Chlamtac; published by John Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley, 2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (John Wiley, 2008).


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