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...

“Wilson’s (801212) mobile amplifier kit, is an all new product designed for any mobile application. If you work on the road, commute through dead cell zones, or just experiencing poor cellular signal, here is a product that will solve your problem. This product is manufactured by Wilson Electronics, or also known as Wilson Cellular. For those of you that aren’t familiar, Wilson Electronics is a leader in the wireless...

Reviewer : Naila S. I was cruising on the Long Island Expressway, talking to my friend on my iPhone about critical details for the final paper of our class. As her voice started to fade along with the signal on my phone, I knew what I needed: Wilson Electronics’ iBooster, a cell phone signer amplifier. I plugged my phone into the iBooster, redialed my friend’s number, and, lo and behold, the call was even better than before! The Wilson...

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...

After some Googling, we found gotreception.com. It shows the location and range of all cell phone towers for Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, Nextel and T-Mobile. Take a look below and plug in your zip code and select your cell phone provider. So what can you do if you are in a dead zone? Dropped calls and slow data rates are generally caused by distance from a cell tower or natural and man-made obstructions, such as buildings, hills, trees,...