Mobile Phone Signal Booster- Advise Please :)

[bograt]

Isn't there a super-high-tech firm owns the big house next door (opposite the back door)? surely they must have something sorted.-- Maybe, if rescue call out was cited, some arrangement could be made?

 

[alastairgott]

I think he owns nightclubs in Ibiza? and anyway, I think we need to sort ourselves out with a long-term solution.

 

[bograt]

Sorry, thought it was the office block for the factory down Millbridge, must have sold it ---

 

[cooleycr]

We could always keep the scaffold tower outside so that users can climb up to get a better signal to dial the emergency services (or their loved ones) NB: best to dial 112 - so much quicker than 999 as that takes an age for the dial to return  :-\

 

[ttxela]

NB: best to dial 112 - so much quicker than 999 as that takes an age for the dial to return  :-\

I remember being taught that 999 was chosen so you could locate the right hole easily using the metal bar across the dial in a darkened or smoke filled room.

Anyhow you lot have terrified Mrs T and she's now unplugged her signal booster and hidden it behind the fishtank!

 

[paul]

NB: best to dial 112 - so much quicker than 999 as that takes an age for the dial to return  :-\

I remember being taught that 999 was chosen so you could locate the right hole easily using the metal bar across the dial in a darkened or smoke filled room.

Anyhow you lot have terrified Mrs T and she's now unplugged her signal booster and hidden it behind the fishtank!

Actually, 999 was chosen for a different reason (not that it really matters!  ):

The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the 'button A' and 'button B' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use (first introduced in 1925) which could be easily modified to allow free use of the 9 digit on the rotary dial in addition to the 0 digit (then used to call the operator), without allowing free use of numbers involving other digits; other combinations of free call 9 and 0 were later used for more purposes, including multiples of 9 (to access exchanges before STD came into use) as a fail-safe for attempted emergency calls, e.g. 9 or 99, reaching at least an operator.

 

[cooleycr]

also 3 "9s" is harder to "accidentally" dial or trigger (by tapping on the GSS in the cradle to by-pass the dial-lock that some tight-wads used to fit to their dials!)

 

[Wils]

Hello everybody!
There are three solutions to weak signal: femtocell (not good because works for only one provider), celfi (too expensive) and booster.

 

[alastairgott]

We went for getting a phone line and Broadband at the TSG in the end.

having "done the numbers" at the end of the year, we installed at the start of Summer with BT and have spent approx. ?360 on costs (installation and monthly) since then.

Clearly, the ongoing cost will still be there, but it's comparable with the Signal Booster idea, (at the least) for the first 8 months.
and people with snazzy phones can use Wifi calling nowadays, so the best of all worlds.

 

[nickwilliams]

I have this solution which is for all operators and networks
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And, lest anyone be in any doubt, seriously illegal in the UK.