Sentence examples for local tower from inspiring English sources

A wireless network is really a local tower and the end-user devices near there.

If you make a call from inside the house and then walk outside, you can expect the microcell to reliably hand off the call to a local tower.

Set up in 1978 on a disused railway goods depot just off Brick Lane, the farm has been a favourite with local Tower Hamlets families ever since.

It has been lobbying its local Tower Hamlets council and strategic health authority to introduce a minimum £6.50 an hour for staff to ensure they can meet basic living standards.

When a CDMA phone connects to the network, it must negotiate with the local tower what phone it is, what service, what number, etc.

Recent neotropical rainforest studies with local tower flux measurements have revealed strong seasonal carbon fluxes that follow the availability of sunlight in intact forests, while in areas of forest disturbance, carbon fluxes more closely tracked seasonal water availability.

Like a web browser that caches data on a personal computer about websites visited so the pages can be pulled up promptly the next time the user returns to them, having the coordinates of local towers or hotspots already in the cache makes it easier for the phone to triangulate its own location.

I understand it's the high-powered command/location signal GSM phones do regularly to ping local towers.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, though – while local towers handle the end-points of a journey, much of the choreography happens well before an airplane even takes off.

Branch managers are the banks' main decision-makers, following what is known internally as the "church-tower principle"—namely, that you should do business only as far you can see from the local church tower.

(Actually, I have occasionally run outside and shot at the local water tower, mistaking it for a spaceship, but that's another story).