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It's quite common, even in the home. The ones I've seen all need an Ethernet link however--maybe that's the innovation?
by Gaelan 10y ago
It's quite common, even in the home. The ones I've seen all need an Ethernet link however--maybe that's the innovation?
- Navarr 10y agoNot really. See T-Mobile's 4G LTE signal booster [1] [1]: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14947 https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14947
- dublinben 10y agoThose are probably proper femtocells, that broadcast a new cellular signal. These are repeaters or dumb signal boosters, that rely on a cellular connection back to the actual network.
- batoure 10y agoThe Press release implies that what they have done is use their newly acquired low frequency spectrum to create a carrier signal that only those boxes can pick up on then the boxes rebroadcast at frequencies existing smartphones can interact with. The lower frequencies will in theory have better range than the higher frequencies they use for typical LTE