PCWorld: Boosting Weak Cell Signals In The Office
If you rely on a cell phone as your main connection to customers and colleagues, you want it to work in the office too. If it doesn’t because the cell provider’s signal isn’t strong enough, you can use femotcells or repeaters to boost the signal.
“Verizon Wireless’s “Dead Zone” ads may be creepy, but they capture the essence of a problem familiar to many cell phone users: When you’re indoors, even within your carrier’s coverage area, the network’s signal sometimes simply isn’t strong enough to support voice calls or data services. A slew of products now address the problem–but they don’t come cheap.
The signal-boosting products generally fall into one of two categories: femtocells or signal repeaters. Both types of equipment can deliver strong signals within buildings, but they work in fundamentally different ways.”
