In a world with LTE Advanced and 5G just on the horizon, you'd think we'd be beyond furiously glaring at the signal bars on our smartphones and cursing poor coverage. Sadly just because carriers may ...

Three weeks back, I shared my initial feedback on Verizon Wireless’s Network Extender femtocell. At the time, I was in an area with quite strong un-enhanced Verizon cellular reception, so I decided to ...

Verizon has just launched a home femtocell 3G Network Extender that allows home mobile-phone users to piggyback off of the home broadband connection. This innovative device is designed to enhance the ...

Back in January 2009, I published an admittedly scathing critique of the femtocell concept. For those unfamiliar with the term, the femtocell is a residence footprint-sized cellular base station, ...

I installed a Verizon Range Extender about 2 1/2 years ago and when it works it is flawless, but it is quirky. The concept behind the Range Extender is elegant and simple. If you find yourself in a ...

No matter how strong your 4G LTE connection is, there will come a time, or a place, where the signal degrades to near uselessness. Sometimes, those times and places are found inside our very own homes ...

[Update] see also: The Verizon Network Extender: Still crappy after all these years. A few months ago I started writing about my saga of getting AT&T U-verse DSL service established at the new ...