{"id":14151,"date":"2014-09-30T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T19:59:32","slug":"upgrade-to-lte-will-let-phones-talk-without-cell-towers-allowing-new-forms-of-social-apps-and-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14151","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to LTE Will Let Phones Talk without Cell Towers, Allowing New Forms of Social Apps and Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Facebook is exploring how the technology could be used with its mobile app. \u201c<strong>LTE Direct<\/strong> would allow us to create user experiences around serendipitous interactions with a local business or a friend nearby,\u201d said Jay Parikh, Facebook\u2019s vice president of infrastructure engineering. \u201cYou could find out about events or do impromptu meet-ups.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/530996\/future-smartphones-wont-need-cell-towers-to-connect\/\">Upgrade to LTE Will Let Phones Talk without Cell Towers, Allowing New Forms of Social Apps and Advertising | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, carriers will control which devices on their networks can use <strong>LTE Direct<\/strong> because it uses the same radio spectrum as conventional cellular links. Wireless carriers might even gain a new stream of revenue by charging companies that want to offer services or apps using the technology, Qualcomm says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is exploring how the technology could be used with its mobile app. \u201cLTE Direct would allow us to create user experiences around serendipitous interactions with a local business or a friend nearby,\u201d said Jay Parikh, Facebook\u2019s vice president of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[546,880,190,78],"class_list":["post-14151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-lte","tag-mobile-data","tag-standards","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14157,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions\/14157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}