Austin Matzko's Blog » Cell Phones http://austinmatzko.com A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:14:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 Cell Tower in Your House http://austinmatzko.com/2008/04/03/domestic-femtocells/ http://austinmatzko.com/2008/04/03/domestic-femtocells/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:37:03 +0000 filosofo http://www.ilfilosofo.com/?p=436 This is what I need: my own “femtocell,” a cellular phone base station that you can put in your home. It connects through your broadband Internet to give your phone a strong signal. I don’t use a landline, and despite being in Boston my connections are sometimes embarrassingly poor, often losing the signal mid-call. So what I really need is for Sprint to put up more towers. But that’s not likely.

Even better would be if my phone could just switch to Wi-Fi and make VoIP calls whenever possible.

But all these things involve involve giving the customer more and better choices, something cellular phone manufacturers and service providers seem reluctant to do.

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