Sprint Airwave boosts your in-home cell signal
Just about everyone wishes they has a more powerful cell phone signal in their home. Well, Sprint heard you, and they’re here to help.
As of Monday, Spring customers in Denver and Indianapolis were able to swing by Sprint stores and pick up the Airwave by Samsung. The nifty little devise requires only an outlet and access to your broadband connection, and you’re got an in-home cell booster.
This system has something over it’s only existing competitor, the T-Mobile HotSpot@Home, in that it works with any existing Sprint handset. The T-Mobile system only works with specified handsets, while Sprint should be able to work with what the customers already have.
The system will handle your calls while at home using your broadband Internet connection, not using any of your minutes. Once you leave, the phone will switch back over to the Sprint network.
The unit costs $49.99, can handle up to 3 calls at a time, and costs $15.00 a month, or $30.00 a month for families. Sprint plans to roll out the product nationwide sometime next year.
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September 18th, 2007
That’s ridiculous. We’ll sell you something for $50 and charge a monthly fee to make up for our inferior products; is that how the game is played?
December 24th, 2007
I bought the airwave with urging from the wife, set it up and it doesn’t work properly. there are 4 lights. power = blue, system = red, gps = red, wan = blue. when the lights are blue everything is working right. I’ve read the install pamplet several times and called sprint all to no avail. and were going to get charged $15. for what? Thinking of taking it back. Our cell phones get good reception. The Airwave is supposed to allow us free incoming and outgoing calls while in range of the base station. Haven’t seen it work yet.
March 20th, 2008
This is definitely a very great thing.
The Sprint Airwave boosts reception by connecting to the home’s Ethernet connection and using the Broadband internet connection to handle the calls without depleting any minutes.
Really a good deal I believe.
December 11th, 2008
Anyone use this mashup http://www.deadcellzones.com of cell phone coverage complaints to market to consumers with cell phone coverage problems?