Melvin,
But
please be careful with which picocells and femtocells are
purchased. Not all of them are blessed by the carriers, and
some have been known to cause problems.
We
had an instance on campus where a department installed their
own system and managed to cause an outage for Verizon for
about a ¼ of campus for multiple days. There are a lot of
Chinese and Korean devices out there that are not certified
by the FCC or are designed to work on other’s licensed
frequencies that reek havock on high-density locations like
MSU.
-Nick
Kwiatkowski
MSU
Telecom Systems
Google
picocell and femtocell about small cellphone cells that plug
into the IP network.
I’ve gotten a couple of inquiries lately
about what can be done to improve cell phone reception within
our building. Mainly it’s “I can’t get my email!” from
smartphone users.
I suppose they could go to WiFi, but I’m
told this will quickly suck batteries dry (I don’t have a
smartphone myself so I don’t have any firsthand experience
with that)
Is there such a thing as a cell repeater
that can be placed inside a building? Or some other solution
that has worked for folks?
Scott Smith
HR Systems
Development and Support
Michigan State
University
