I would be concerned, first off, as to whether or not this would be used for more detailed tracking purposes, and not just by governmental types.
You'll be able to get your service contract directly through the NSA.
I imagine this is why Comcast wanted to give passing third-parties access to your home wireless router.
It appears to be a VOIP via wireless to the nearest link to the internet. There are already MVNOs doing this via wifi.
Thing is, who picks up the tab for the eventual internet connection?
Oh noes! Think of what the terrorists could do with that!
Every cell phone doubles as a cell tower.
However, are the phone companies going to pay you any money for helping them route other peoples' information through your phone?
Also, we've heard about hackers creating fake cell towers. It should be even easier to create fake LTE's that can scan lots of data as it passes through.
And if you don't have the latest/greatest phone you may never be able to use it if it is constantly being bogged down by other peoples' traffic.
Sounds great if you live in a heavily populated area. Not so much if you value rural life.
It’s freaking wrong.
What Sprint is essentially doing is off loading their network to others and reduce congestion.
So many privacy issues with this...
Nice, a built in walke-talki app.I love it.
The NSA will not like this, unless they can find a way to jack in.
” You have exceeded your allotted connection cap. You will now be charged $1.95 for every connection you make. please refer to out TOS...thank you”
LTE stands for long-term evolution.
Part of that evolution for ALL the carriers is moving to an all IP infrastructure and delivery model.
The GSM “4G” model of today will be sunset.
The ‘physical layer’ of Wi-Fi or cell tower connectivity will become moot, because both will be an IP connection.
The model will move off of ‘minutes’ of usage, and on to amount of data.
Just the next model.
Push to talk has been around forever.
T-Mobile apparently doesn’t use the towers now. At least based on my reception outside of FL.
I wonder how long it’ll be before Sprint offers this/sarc ;)
Sprint has been doing their for years. Their “Push To Talk” feature was a godsend on job sites and on commercial sites, all the sub contractors had them. Made life so much easier. However, they would ONLY connect to other Sprint Push To Talk devices.
Cell phones are transceiver’s and towers are repeaters.
CB’s with privet channel well almost NSA hears you.
“IF” they can ever get the bugs worked out of the technology over the powerline communications will be the future in communications. Telephone, Internet, and electrical power all from one grid. The big “IF” though is just that an “IF”. It’s been in research for a long time now.