said by patcat88:Who should get a femtocell? You pay for the privilege of running a cell tower at home using your own bandwidth? Thats as idiotic as an ad I once saw "$100K house for sale, land not included", guess who just got a free, or profitable demolition? Or cable TV, you pay for the privilege of watching ads, they should be paying you to watch cable TV.
If you need a femtocell because of coverage, get a new carrier. You pay each month for the right to USE a network, not the right to RUN a network. Let the carriers build and maintain a network, not hand it off to subscribers.
Now if a cellular company wants to place an small (no more than 3 feet) omni antenna on my house, pay me $50 a month in rent, and bring their own bandwidth (pay for a T1), by all means I would be happy to allow that, I included some pics of what I mean
No cell provider can give me coverage where I live. I'm surrounded by hills that block the signal so I get zero to one bar depending on where I stand. I could get a repeater but then I would need to put up an antenna for the base station around 12 feet high so I could get a reliable signal. The Femtocell makes much more sense. It's in a cabinet, hidden away, and works perfectly.
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