"Jim Stewart" <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
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>> "Graham." <me@privicy.com> wrote in message
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>>> "Rocky" <me9@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>>>> 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?
>>>> Anything else anyone can suggest?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rocky.
>>>
>>> Car-kit with an external aerial placed strategically may do
>>> the trick, but fewer and fewer handsets have aerial sockets
>>> these days.
>>>
>> This has been covered several times before.
>> Good used Nokia 6310i in a Cark 91 car kit, with mains PSU,
>> and a base aerial as high as possible connected to the car kit.
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>> Also if 1800MHz network? Cheap Algon in-line bi-directional amp from
>> Peter Parry
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> or change to a 900Mc/s system........
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Has your medication worn off again?

It's a matter of what networks are at all usable in a small village,
not a band problem

Steve Terry