"Steve Terry" <gFOURwwk@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> "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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>>>> "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.
>>>
>>> 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
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> Steve Terry
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so it is .....