[LINK] Telstra now admits booster useful - $720 useful

[Glen Turner]

On 06/07/12 14:14, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> When Optus trialled a similar product in April last year Telstra said 
> the product was "a means of compensating for poor coverage".
...
> Last month Telstra started selling a device called "Mobile Smart 
> Antenna" for $720, which includes a "window unit" that receives NextG 
> signals from outdoors and an indoor "coverage unit".

The Optus device is a complete base station with an IP link back to
Optus (IP link supplied by the customer, usually a ADSL service). See
"picocell".

I'm not sure if the Telstra device is essentially a repeater or is a
picocell with a wireless uplink. The description favours the first, but
the price favours the second.

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