Your own Vodafone Femtocell ....
06 July 2009, 11:01 PM
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Your own Vodafone Femtocell ....
That got your attention ... or not as the case may be ... 
This has just been introduced for people with a duff Vodafone signal in their house. Now *if* you were on the ball (and all of SN is, right??) then that wouldn't happen. No Vodafone signal, go with O2, or whoever does work. In my case I was tied in with Vodafone when moving. Moved from a house where Vodafone was the only signal, to one where V is sh&te, but so are the others. So this could be an answer ... http://www.airtimemanager.co.uk/news...way-announced/
Nipped into the Vodafone shop in Truro today and they said I was the first person to ask about it ... hmmm. But then I do read the online pooter press, which is where I heard about it, and not seen it advertised anywhere else.
Has anyone else seen anything about these? Seen any reviews? Got one? I hate to be one of the first users doing all their beta testing for them .............
Dave
This has just been introduced for people with a duff Vodafone signal in their house. Now *if* you were on the ball (and all of SN is, right??) then that wouldn't happen. No Vodafone signal, go with O2, or whoever does work. In my case I was tied in with Vodafone when moving. Moved from a house where Vodafone was the only signal, to one where V is sh&te, but so are the others. So this could be an answer ... http://www.airtimemanager.co.uk/news...way-announced/
Nipped into the Vodafone shop in Truro today and they said I was the first person to ask about it ... hmmm. But then I do read the online pooter press, which is where I heard about it, and not seen it advertised anywhere else.
Has anyone else seen anything about these? Seen any reviews? Got one? I hate to be one of the first users doing all their beta testing for them .............
Dave
06 July 2009, 11:55 PM
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I was reading about it awhile ago and was thinking - wtf ? So Vodafone cant build anymore towers, so they want YOU to pay 200 pounds for your vodafone to work properly ? I mean surely its in THEIR interest for me to have the best signal possible and spend money with them. Its the biggest hoax ever, but i guess there are lots of dumb people around ready to be milked. If you don't get a good enough signal with vodafone, just go with someone else.
If you are tied with vodafone, just think about it, how much are they going to charge you for dropping the contract, isnt it something like 50 quid ? Think opportunity cost.
The only reason i see someone could benefit from one is if you live in the woods and you get no signal with any network and cant get a cable phone, but i suppose its very rare.
If you are tied with vodafone, just think about it, how much are they going to charge you for dropping the contract, isnt it something like 50 quid ? Think opportunity cost.
The only reason i see someone could benefit from one is if you live in the woods and you get no signal with any network and cant get a cable phone, but i suppose its very rare.
06 July 2009, 11:57 PM
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Truro...........
that's in the arsehole of nowhere. how are you getting on with electric? and hot water?
that's in the arsehole of nowhere. how are you getting on with electric? and hot water?
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07 July 2009, 08:16 AM
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27 July 2009, 08:07 PM
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OK. Well I got one. £5 per month, couldn't beat them down to nowt. As I said, I get b&gger all signal from anyone where we are so having a strong signal from my own service provider is nice. Only 3G though so the missus can't use it as her phone is 2G only. But I now get a full signal over the whole house. The support for it seems good so far as well.
I asked the support people (you still need to ring them to add phone numbers for the time being - they had only hit about 1,000 in the country about a week ago - launched on July 1) about lack of 2G support and their comments were that the lack of 2G was mainly commercial rather than technical. Someone mentioned Vodafone etc just improving their network but apparently trying to get a new mast (especially a 3G one) installed these days is a major headache - mainly because people are worried about possible 'major headaches' ..... (sorry) .....
Anyway, simple bit of kit. Just plug it into the mains and into a spare RJ45 socket on your router and let it auto-install (nowt you can do manually anyway). At the same time register the serial number with Vodafone and you're up and running in 24 hours. You have to register any numbers you wish to use it with Vodafone but the connection seems instant.
Recommended if you're Vodafone with a sh$te signal and a 3G phone ....
Dave
I asked the support people (you still need to ring them to add phone numbers for the time being - they had only hit about 1,000 in the country about a week ago - launched on July 1) about lack of 2G support and their comments were that the lack of 2G was mainly commercial rather than technical. Someone mentioned Vodafone etc just improving their network but apparently trying to get a new mast (especially a 3G one) installed these days is a major headache - mainly because people are worried about possible 'major headaches' ..... (sorry) .....
Anyway, simple bit of kit. Just plug it into the mains and into a spare RJ45 socket on your router and let it auto-install (nowt you can do manually anyway). At the same time register the serial number with Vodafone and you're up and running in 24 hours. You have to register any numbers you wish to use it with Vodafone but the connection seems instant.
Recommended if you're Vodafone with a sh$te signal and a 3G phone ....
Dave
27 July 2009, 09:15 PM
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Orange (no help) allow you to use UMA.
If your phone supports UMA then you can use your home wireless router to make calls.
So get out of car with no signal, walk in to home, connect to router, job done! All at no extra cost. I wonder why Vodapants don't allow that?
If your phone supports UMA then you can use your home wireless router to make calls.
So get out of car with no signal, walk in to home, connect to router, job done! All at no extra cost. I wonder why Vodapants don't allow that?
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