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Are we finding situations that external towers don't penetrate into a new building that uses High e-glass? Would this necessitate internal picocells? Students are dependent on cell phones for 911 calls. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:35 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] at&t microcell use on campus? Microcells aren't "boosters", they're miniature cell towers that backhaul to the telco over Ethernet. They're official equipment provided by the carriers themselves and comply with FCC regs. Otherwise, having ATT towers on campus would be a much better solution. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 > From: "Kwiatkowski, Nicholas" <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: "Kwiatkowski, Nicholas" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:10:42 -0400 > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] at&t microcell use on campus? > > Gary, > > MSU generally discourages the use of cell-boosters on campus. A great > majority of them are not legal in the United States, and in order to be used, > they need to be registered with the licensee of the specturm. Additionally > they must be parts B and C of the FCC code complient. At home, this is not > usually an issue, but on our campus we work very closely with our vendors to > make sure that things work as expected. > > We are in the process of installing AT&T Cell Towers on campus as we speak. > The process kicked off about two months ago after about a year's worth of > delays from both our and AT&T's legal departments. The first phase is > completed in adding cells on the stadium and Breslin center. Phase two is to > paint the rest of campus and should be completed in the next 3 - 4 months. > > I urge you to ask your faculty member to hold off on purchasing any gear until > we have finished this project. We will write a quick note on the NAG list to > let everybody know. If there is still an issue after the project is done, > please let our department know, and we will work with you to make sure we can > find a reasonable solution. > > -Nick Kwiatkowski > MSU Telecom Systems > > ________________________________________ > From: Gary Schrock [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:37 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] at&t microcell use on campus? > > I vaguely remember a while back there was some talk about these > microcell cell phone boosters on the nag list, but so far I have had any > luck searching through the archives for it. I also vaguely remember > that in that discussion there might have been some talk about problems > if people ran these? Anyone have any recollection of this? > > The reason I'm wondering is that I've had a faculty member ask me about > whether one of these would work in her office, because she gets > basically no reception in there. (She said the only way she can get any > signal is to put the phone on the window sill right up against the > window). She's been using one of these at home with good results, and > wondered about using one here. (And yes, I'd tend to say if she gets > lousy reception at home and work with at&t, then maybe it's time to > switch providers, but that's not what she's interested in doing.) The > way our building is built I'd guess that any signal from this wouldn't > go too far beyond her office. > > Thanks, > Gary