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I get 5 bars at home, but would love to get rid of my landline, and use this device to get free minutes at home. But, how will I know I'm connect to the device and not to the cell tower.
I was able to read the manual, and it looks like they will use a short tone before the ringback tone to let you know when you are using your unlimited minutes (AIRAVE) vs regular minutes (regular tower). Same for when you receive a call, you will hear a short tone to let you know you are using AIRAVE.
They are not "free minutes" because the service is $15/month.
My land line cost more than that even if I don't make a single call, so it's worth it to me.
I have been testing the AIRAVE under the Sprint Ambassador program for www.mobilegadgetnews.com. Nice service and to tell if you are on the AIRAVE you just dial *99 from your phone and it will tell you are on or off the AIRAVE. A voice will say "you are now within AIRAVE coverage". It also makes a different dial beep before you call out. You can have Sprint limit the phone numbers that use AIRAVE so no neighbors borrowing your bandwidth. You have to call Sprint and give them the phone numbers to register and the AIRAVE MAC id. Pretty slick.