by Tim Shortall and Sarah Silvaroli Daul

OIT hopes you will soon answer with a resounding yes.

After exploring how to best enhance cellular coverage on campus, OIT is collaborating with several cellular providers to install antennae in selected locations across campus. A new Verizon Wireless antenna was installed in the Hornbake Plaza area. OIT is in the final stages of negotiating with AT&T to provide a temporary Cell-On-Wheels (COW) antenna for improved coverage while AT&T works on providing a formal proposal to campus for a standard tower. In addition, OIT has met with T-Mobile, and they are currently in the process of boosting signals on the perimeter of the campus and discussing alternative approaches to improving coverage.

The Verizon Wireless antenna and AT&T COW will have the greatest impact on external cellular coverage, but may improve internal coverage as well.