Most people know that cell phone service in a home can prove tricky. If you have a bad connection, then you would typically need to rely on home telephone service to complete your calls. However, Verizon has just started retailing the Verizon Wireless Network Extender, a device that can help boost your signal while at home and allow you to turn off your home line.
When connected to a broadband router, the device acts as a mini cell phone tower and can boost signals for phones within a 5000 foot radius. These devices are known as femtocells and a similar product was released by Sprint last year. Sprint’s Airave costs $100 to purchase and users must pay a small monthly subscription rate. Currently, Verizon is not charging a subscription rate to use their version. AT&T is in the testing phase for their femtocells while T-Mobile uses Wi-Fi to improve subscribers’ home service.
If you want to drop your home service, then you should definitely consider shelling out the $250 for the device.
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Seems pricey. If you have bad Verizon coverage in your home, Verizon should give you this at no charge…"can you hear me now?"
Yes, very pricey, For those of us in NORTHERN MAINE it would be a great idea to give it free, kinda angers me how there's no cellphone service and we have to just deal with the .20/ minute overage charge. way to go verizon at helping me consider sprint, or maybe even u.s. cellular. "i can't hear you now."