Allan Leinwand over at GigaOM has explored the recent development of femto cellular sites. A personal device that would use your Internet connection to interface with your mobile carrier and provide service at home or office.
These next type of cell sites, named femto cellular (femto being smaller than pico, the term used by mobile operators that refers to smaller cell sites) are setting out to solve carriers’ often-expensive problem of providing complete coverage. Mobile phones usually work well in metropolitan areas, but travel a few miles off the Interstate or into the country and signal bars drop rapidly. Most frustrating to many people is that the signal strength at their homes or inside offices is often unusable.
The big question is how much would not only the device cost, but would there be a charge from the carrier to use a service/device like this.
Via: GigaOM – Can Personal Cellular Sites boost cell service?
