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
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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.
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Jack Kramer
Computer Systems Specialist
University Relations, Michigan State University
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> From: "Kwiatkowski, Nicholas" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Kwiatkowski, Nicholas" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:10:42 -0400
> To: "[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]" <[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]">[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:37 PM
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> 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