TechHive: In a room with no cell service, Verizon works on the future of mobile

TechHive
TechHive helps you find your tech sweet spot. We guide you to products you'll love and show you how to get the most out of them. 
Impart your knowledge.

Learn how to start a business by offering an online course. Signup for our ebook today.
From our sponsors
thumbnail In a room with no cell service, Verizon works on the future of mobile
Oct 9th 2013, 18:14, by Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service

If you think your house has bad cellular coverage, Verizon Wireless has you beat: A small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building gets no service at all.

That's not because carriers are neglecting the bustling South of Market business district where the room is located. Instead, it's because Verizon is paying so much attention to what's going on there.

The room with zero bars is in the heart of the Verizon Innovation Center, where Verizon network and business experts help developers of new wireless devices and apps to turn their ideas into products. The center opened there about two years ago, setting up shop in a hotbed of startup activity in the tech-heavy Bay Area.

Verizon center viewsPhoto: Stephen Lawson
The Verizon Wireless Innovation Center in San Francisco has doubled its great views of the Bay Bridge by expanding to two floors.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com.

If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions
Previous
Next Post »