boost your phone signal

February 3, 2010 at 7:03 am Leave a comment

No network coverage? Dropped calls? Here’s your lifeline.

The Telegraph reports on the launch of Vodafone Sure Signal – a mobile phone signal booster for Vodafone customers. All one needs is a broadband connection and a 3G phone.

Talk, uninterrupted.

The Sure Signal box is a femtocell, a technology pioneered by a British company, Picochip. They are simple black boxes, the size of a paperback book, which plug into the back of a customer’s broadband hub via an Ethernet cable.

Femtocells not only should improve mobile phone coverage, but they also allow smart phone customers such as iPhone users to download far more data to their devices.