Sprint has rolled out a new service that leverages broadband networks to let Sprint cellular customers use their existing phones to make calls in places where they have weak or nonexistent cellular signals. For home users, that might be the basement, bathroom or backyard. The new service, called “Airave,” uses a femtocell compact base station built by Samsung, which users connect to an existing broadband network via an existing router. The Airave then works with any Sprint phone to provide unlimited in-home wireless calling.
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Sprint Offers Airave to Pump Up Signal Weaklings
Posted by: Chris Maxcer September 18, 2007 03:05 PMSprint has rolled out a new service that leverages broadband networks to let Sprint cellular customers use their existing phones to make calls in places where they have weak or nonexistent cellular signals. For home users, that might be the basement, bathroom or backyard. The new service, called “Airave,” uses a femtocell compact base station built by Samsung, which users connect to an existing broadband network via an existing router. The Airave then works with any Sprint phone to provide unlimited in-home wireless calling.