A Cell Tower in Every Home

By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 17, 2008.
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Let me go out on a limb here and assume you’ve been the victim of bad cell phone coverage from time to time. Dropped calls, dead spots -- these are the small annoyances of modern day communication. And depending where you live, you might even get bad cell coverage in your own home -- a truly frustrating scenario. Well, the wireless companies are working on a solution to this issue. They’d like to put cell phone towers in all our homes. Well, not really full-sized towers. They’re devices about the size of a breadbox that provide coverage throughout the house.

Roger Crockett wrote about the contraptions for Businessweek, and he joins us Word of Mouth to fill us in. Roger is the Chicago deputy bureau manager for Businessweek. He covers telecommunications, technology, and e-commerce.

Click here to read Roger Crockett’s article on home cell phone towers.

(Photo by Jeff Kubina)

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