Comments on: Get a femto cell for mobile phone dead zones http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/12/10/get-a-femto-cell-for-mobile-phone-dead-zones/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Chambers http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/12/10/get-a-femto-cell-for-mobile-phone-dead-zones/comment-page-1/#comment-28509 David Chambers Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:08:06 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=887#comment-28509 Good News! Femtocells are available to buy from both Sprint and Verizon Wireless today (March 2009), with ATT Wireless committed to offering commercial service before the end of 2009. An alternative dual-mode WiFi service is available from T-Mobile, which requires a special dual-mode handset with a software feature called UMA. Repeaters can also be purchased, but are fairly expensive (300 bucks up), and may not give best results in the long term. They aren't locked to a single network (like femtocells). Head over to my website for a full review of the options plus substantial technical and commercial background. David Chambers ThinkFemtocell.com Good News! Femtocells are available to buy from both Sprint and Verizon Wireless today (March 2009), with ATT Wireless committed to offering commercial service before the end of 2009. An alternative dual-mode WiFi service is available from T-Mobile, which requires a special dual-mode handset with a software feature called UMA.

Repeaters can also be purchased, but are fairly expensive (300 bucks up), and may not give best results in the long term. They aren’t locked to a single network (like femtocells).

Head over to my website for a full review of the options plus substantial technical and commercial background.

David Chambers
ThinkFemtocell.com

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