Sprint Airave: Mini Cell Tower for your Home To Become Reality for All
There are rumors that Sprint Airwave will go nationwide on July 15th. After the trial in Denver and Indianapolis last year.
Sprint AIRAVE™ is a device that creates a CDMA signal for your mobile phone via your broadband modem (like a miniature cell tower for your home). AIRAVE provides enhanced and reliable mobile phone coverage in your house or office even if your existing wireless coverage is poor. When you leave home, your calls are automatically transferred to the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network.
The hardware of the Airave is made by Samsung, a Femtocell station that connects to your home broadband router to provide unlimited calling to any Sprint phones. The device will cost $99 and monthly services (reportedly $15 for individual and $30 for family). These costs are in addition to Sprint wireless service.
Sprint’s effort is better than the similar T-Mobile’s @Home service, which requires specific phones. Sprint users can use any Sprint CDMA available phones to take advantage of this service.
Granted, the service allows unlimited calling minutes (minutes don’t count toward your existing plan), But for people who already have a generous minute plan, I am still puzzled the fact that why do I have to pay more to get the quality of service that I am supposed to get?
[Source Sprint AIRAVE™ via SprintUsers]
We lost cell signal for three sprint carrier phones last weekend. No signal at all in the house, yard, and subdivision, after three years of perfect signal strength. Sprint after many calls and many visits to the Sprint store just kept telling us they showed no problem with our service. We didn’t even have 911 calling.
Then they tell us we had to purchase the airwave and pay a monthly fee to use our phones over MY INTERNET connection. I dumped srint and went to Verizon.
I hope some lawyer files a class action lawsuit against sprint. Sprint is the worst phone company in the world as far as I am concerned.