Sidecut Reports

A little weekend geekspotting: Driving down the road near my house Friday, what did I see but a DAS antenna staring down at me! Seriously, we have previously reported AT&T’s moves to put DAS — Distributed Antenna System, or smaller cell antennas — in and around Palo Alto, and then we saw one at an AT&T workyard near here. But this one is apparently live and in the public wild, theoretically improving local cell reception.

Anyone know if AT&T is working with San Mateo to put these puppies in? If you didn’t know what you were looking for I am not sure you’d notice this one, a single antenna plopped right on top of a light pole.

If you’ve got an iTunes account, congratulations — you can now more easily purchase a Sidecut Report, our new 4G LTE Market Report for January, 2012. Just download iTunes, go to the iTunes store and search “LTE” and check the results under Books — you’ll find our red-covered report if you scroll down a bit.

It’s a buck more when purchased on iTunes (gotta pay the middlemen) but at $2.99 it’s still a bargain and it gets you up to speed on the speediest wireless networks in town — LTE. Get your copy for your iPad today and start Sidecutting — iBookstore style!

Light Reading Editor in Chief Phil Harvey and yours truly wax philosophical about AT&T’s Developer Summit in Las Vegas earlier this week. Gotta love my forgot-the-hair-gel look. But then my hair is always going to finish second to Phil’s ‘do. Anyway. Enjoy.