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AT&T 3G MicroCell uses your broadband to compensate for lack of AT&T coverage

Posted on 21 September 2009 by


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Are you an AT&T cellular subscriber suffering through poor signal coverage at home or in the office? Up until now there wasn’t much you could do except take the phone into the attic in hopes of catching an extra bar or two of signal coverage. For the last year (or two) T-Mobile and Verizon and Sprint all had offerings that boost signal coverage by way of an indoor signal repeater that’s attached to a subscriber’s broadband internet connection. Now AT&T is rolling out their own version. While there’s no pricing on their initial offering page the company appears poised to go live with 3G MicroCell coverage. Up to 4 users can share this portable signal repeater which you must initially place near a window so that the internal GPS can detect that you’re within an AT&T licensed coverage area (so forget about using this overseas). Unlike T-Mobile’s version (Hotspot@Home) the AT&T 3G MicroCell works with any AT&T phone. Check the site for information on when it will be coming to your area.

AT&T 3G MicroCell via Engadget

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  • http://www.mobilitysite.com breley

    I could certainly use one of these where I work. While only about a mile or two from some cell towers, the terrain here adversely affects signal reception indoors…even the offices down our street appear to have a similar problem. As it stands now I have a Cell Ranger by my desk and that adds a bar or two to my reception, such that people occasionally crowd around my desk to get better reception, lol. I’d be really curious how the 3G MicroCell would fare for me.

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  • Smitty

    AT&T should be paying people to put these devices in their attics. Imagine if all the AT&T subscribers in your neighborhood installed them, and got, say, $5 off their bill each month it was detected on the network. If the devices would all communicate together to form a mesh of better reception, there would soon be much less complaint about AT&T’s signal strength in certain areas.

    There are folks in my neighborhood dead set against putting up a cell tower, because they think it will fry their brains. (They have said so out loud in public meetings where the matter was being discussed. I only wish I was making this up! And, yes, at least one of them was wearing a tin foil hat to protect his tiny little brain from loose microwaves.)

    With these devices, AT&T could give their customers better service for a fraction of the cost of a new antenna, and virtually none of the negative publicity. Any time someone calls to say they’re dropped calls, put one of these in the mail, and soon that type call would dry up.

    As for selling it, I think it’s never going to get outside business users.