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<small><font face="Arial" size="2"><small><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Greetings:</span></small></font><font
face="Arial"> </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><small><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
<br>
Please join members of Information Services and Technology (IS&T),
Facilities, and AT&T Cellular for a Community Forum on <u>Monday,
February 9, 2009 at 10am in W20-306, Twenty Chimneys.</u> The meeting
is an open forum </span></small></font><font face="Arial">to discuss
the possible installation
locations for an AT&T cellular transmitter on main campus to
improve cellular phone coverage, and also to provide us an opportunity
to hear concerns, answer questions, and collect general feedback and
comments from the MIT community. <br>
</font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<b>Currently, the installation locations under review are: <br>
<br>
</b></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></font></small><small><font
face="Arial">The roof of </font></small><small><font face="Arial"><b>B</b><b>uilding
37</b>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=37&Buildings=go">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=37&Buildings=go</a>)
<br>
The roof of <b>Building 16</b>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=16&Buildings=go">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=16&Buildings=go</a>)</font><font
face="Arial"><br>
<br>
Please forward this invitation to faculty, staff and / or students who
may be interested in learning about this project and sharing their
experiences, thoughts and concerns.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><br>
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Background:</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><small><br>
<br>
</small></font><font face="Arial">IS&T has received significant
feedback from MIT customers who have
AT&T devices that report the cellular coverage on campus is
sub-par, and is hindering researchers, faculty, students and staff
ability to do their work for the Institute. This issue has been made
more pronounced by the introduction of the iPhone in June 2007, which
is being offered exclusively by AT&T for 5 years.</font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><small><br>
<br>
</small></font><font face="Arial">IS&T and Facilities have worked
in collaboration with AT&T to
develop potential solutions to the problem, and based on the
concentration of devices on campus and the location of other AT&T
transmitters in the area, AT&T has determined the solution to this
coverage issue was to install a transmitter in MIT’s main campus. </font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><small><br>
<br>
</small></font><font face="Arial">Once AT&T had identified some
possible locations for transmitters,
some of the buildings were tested to see if a potential transmitter
would improve signal distribution across campus. Based on those test
results, the potential locations that are now under consideration for
transmitter installation are buildings 37 (best) and building 16 (good).</font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><small><br>
<br>
</small></font><font face="Arial">We are coordinating a meeting with
MIT, AT&T and their RF engineers
to review possible installation options, so that MIT customers can
voice concerns, ask questions, and bring all issues forward to help us
further define the parameters around which this work should be
undertaken. </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><small><br>
<br>
</small></font><font face="Arial">Our goal is to address the concerns
of MIT community members which have
important MIT work that cannot be disrupted by a potential transmitter
installation, and to also provide an opportunity for other members of
the MIT community that have important MIT work that is being disrupted
by the fact that their AT&T mobile devices are not working
effectively in some locations across the MIT campus.<br>
</font></small><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><br>
</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Regards,<br>
<br>
Joan<br>
</span></font></font>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b><font color="#990000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Joan M. Cyr<br>
Technical Consultant, 5ESS and Cellular<br>
</font></font></font></b><font color="#990000"><font size="-1"><font
face="Arial"><font color="#000000">Massachusetts Institute of
Technology<br>
Information Services and Technology<br>
400 Main Street, E19-687<br>
Cambridge, MA 02142<br>
T: 617.253.7900<br>
F: 617.253.5300<br>
E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jcyr@mit.edu">jcyr@mit.edu</a></font></font></font></font></div>
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