In article <Goa0m.50800$9M6.41825@newsfe13.ams2>, me9@privacy.net
says...
> Hi,
>
> As per the subject line. My parents live in a small village with
> extremely crap and unresponsive telecomes cover, this includes not only
> landline, but also mobile. Wih the landlines breaking down more and more
> frequently, there's been questions raised about getting better mobile
> coverage, so with this in mind.
>
> Apart from changing providers to the one that has the strongest signal
> in the given area. Is there anything else that can be done, is it
> possible to boost a mobile phones signal at all?

If you have line of sight to a base sataion then you can set up
amplifiers, however these kind of setups are not cheap.

> Anything else anyone can suggest?

VoIP if the internet connectivity is okay, but obviously if the
landlines go then the VoIP goes as well.
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Regards
Jon