If you’ve been experiencing choppy voice quality or dropped calls from your mobile provider at your home or workplace, there are steps you can take to correct the problem. Cellular phones use radio signals to communicate, and like any other radio, signal propagation issues — including topography, obstructions, distance to tower and interference — affect quality. Femtocells are low-power cellular radio base stations that interface with the Internet — a bit like a VoIP application.
AT&T sells a microcell device for $160 that comes with a one year warranty for the many folks like me who can't get service in their home with AT&T's deficient coverage area. My microcell device just died after 17 months and after speaking with 3 different levels of their "customer service" AT&T tells me I'm S.O.L. and have to buy another one for another $160. Fortunately I am past the end of my contract, so I can go to the competition and leave AT&T in the dust as a bad memory. AT&T does not stand behind the products they sell.
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Bump Up Your Carrier's Lousy Signal With a Femtocell
Posted by: Patrick Nelson September 27, 2012 05:00 AMIf you’ve been experiencing choppy voice quality or dropped calls from your mobile provider at your home or workplace, there are steps you can take to correct the problem. Cellular phones use radio signals to communicate, and like any other radio, signal propagation issues — including topography, obstructions, distance to tower and interference — affect quality. Femtocells are low-power cellular radio base stations that interface with the Internet — a bit like a VoIP application.