re: cell jamming
Stephen, the prospect of being shut down, or in your case, having one's cell reception and transmissions jammed [immobilized?] by adjacent environmental influences are not uncommon. While we ordinarily associate dead zones and canyon phenomena with line-of-sight criteria and distance from the source, these same effects are also possible, and sometimes predictable in the presence of very strong surrounding r-f and other e-m (electro-magnetic) field influences, too, such as those at power generation stations (and the larger substations in neighborhoods), large power lifts such as those you would find at docking stations and elevator banks, etc.
I'm no expert on the topic, and cannot speak at this time to the specific field strength levels which the industry recognizes, but fortunately we have some folks here on SI who know this subject inside and out, if they'll share with us on this topic.
Your question also raises some other good questions having to do with acceptable levels of exposure to residential inhabitants and surrounding other living matter (don't mean to scare you, just stating this academically) from such influences, and from a service perspective, the liabilities of those carriers who would make assertions that they can provide services in such locations. Beyond those, it also speaks to how well these same residents might be able to exploit future wireless Internet access platforms from their homes.
Interesting topic, thanks for bringing it to the forum. Let's see what some members who are more knowledgeable in matters wireless than I have to say about this subject.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
