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Your new apartment can be perfect : great location, all the space you need and more. But then you go to make a phone call and you discover : no cell phone service. Your apartment may be a cell phone dead zone. That situation is bad enough if you also have a landline, but if you rely primarily on your cell phone, no reception can be a major issue. No service isn’t exactly a reason to break your lease, but living a dead zone can create...

Areas where cell phones cannot transmit to a nearby cell site, base station, or repeater are known as dead zones. Dead zones are usually areas where cell phone service is not available because the signal between the handset and the cell site antenna is blocked, usually by hilly terrain, excessive foliage, physical distance, or tall buildings. A number of factors can create dead zones which may exist even in locations in which a wireless...

With a lack of industry standards in the cellular amplifier market, Wilson Electronics outlines six tips for selecting a quality amplifier to reduce dropped calls, increase data rates and ensure cellular signals  stay within reach. Bi-directional amplification :  Select an amplifier that is bi-directional, meaning an amplifier that boosts both the cell site’s incoming downlink signal and outgoing uplink signal.  Some  amplifiers on...

1. Rural areas In many rural areas the housing density is too low to make construction of a new base station commercially viable. In these cases it is unlikely that the service provider will do anything to improve reception, due to the high cost of erecting a new tower. As a result, the only way to obtain strong cell phone signal in these areas is usually to install a home cellular repeater. In flat rural areas the signal is unlikely to...

You might often experience the inability to talk on your cell phone due to weak signals in a particular area, as a result of which you get irritated especially when important calls are lost. A person might try to call you up but the network is unavailable as the signal in your area is weak. What do you in this case? The Signal Booster Works : You can now install a cell phone signal booster. A signal booster is a device which will lead to...