[Pen] Seeking recommendation: Mobile Phone signal booster for retail location

[Bradley McMahon]

My work as a GSM signal booster with a high gain antenna on the roof and
the repeater antenna setup on second floor ceiling. Its works for about
10-20 of us. It cost around $200-300. If you want more I'm not sure getting
an additional one will result in more people getting better signal.

Femto cells work on a pre-selected group of numbers and are limited to ten
numbers. This means you have to manually type in cell numbers that
are permitted to work on the femtocell. Oh and it only works on
the carrier that provides it.

Next up is a microcell which is only deployed by a a carrier and
their technicians and costs several thousands just for the hardware.
-Brad



On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Nick Farr <nick at nickfarr.org> wrote:

> Yeah, best thing IMHO is to get the femotcells from each of the carriers
> you're looking at.  (AT&T and Sprint sell them online, T-Mobile doesn't
> AFAIK.)
>
> They usually handle only about 4 phones at a time, though.  The boxes
> themselves are cheap, they just plug into broadband.
>
> Nick Farr
> http://nickfarr.org
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>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Swamphandy <swamphandy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Our family business is in a steel building. Customers (and staff)
>> often drop calls and have poor reception while inside.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience using an inexpensive signal booster in a
>> retail environment? The whole store is about 3000sq ft. I need
>> something that will be solid, without a huge price tag.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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