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Femtocells – Not a Minute Too Soon
by Andrew McCaskey
It would almost be enough to convert me to a Sprint phone subscriber, if it were not for the iPhone and family connections that have us firmly tied to AT&T.
Even though we are less than a mile from cellular towers serving traffic on a major interstate highway, the cell phone service inside the house is a joke.
Of course, when you choose to live inside a Faraday Cage of aluminum siding, you can live with the consequences of your decision. And, with luck, the XM satellite can see just the right portion of the sky from a bookcase through a bedroom window on the second floor. But with bad luck, your AT&T cellphone will be just about flat unless you are at an open window facing the tower.
The Sprint Femtocell $99 box +$15 per month uplift would be just the solution – positioned in an upstairs window or attic with clear view of the cell tower, repeating inside the aluminum silo that is our home.
There have got to be millions of homes with this problem (most built in the 1960′s and 1970′s) and it may be one of the Golden Arrows (along with WiMax) that can pull Sprint’s fortunes out of the fire.
I hope so, (since I am an EVDO customer with Sprint).
And I hope AT&T gets their Femtocell act together soon.
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