Verizon Wireless to launch its own Samsung Ubicell
By Darren Murph 
posted October 25th 2008 11:16AM
posted October 25th 2008 11:16AM
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i cant f-ing wait for this
i have terriable service in the house
wow you guys need to chill out, and d train, you're a ass. and pheonix, stop trying to act tough like the douche train. Verizon will let you out of your contract if you dont have service. Its called breach of contract.
Hmmm... considering I live in a total dead zone let's see if the big V will part with one of these for free (at least monthly). I'm sure they would love to stop getting my calls from my landline phone about the dead zone.
Quit thinking you are entitled to shit, you arent entitled to anything man, not VZW's fault you moved into a dead zone and didnt do the research before buying the services.
I actually lived here before Verizon offered service in my area.. thanks mate.
The D Train: Don't be such a dick! Number one, expecting someone to research cell coverage at a place they're moving to is a little much. There's no fucking way I'm gonna give up a house that has everything I want just because I don't get cell coverage. Second, there is something called a contract. The way it works is: first you give them money, then they provide you with service. If they are unable to hold up their end of the deal, the costumer is entitled to some kind of resolution monetary or otherwise, So take a Midol, have some hot tea and calm the fuck down.
Even worse if you lived there and used the service for the 30days and kept it when it wasnt working.
The companies are not to blame for bad consumer purchasing behaviours, if your house is awesome and you love it but your cell service isnt working at your house, or you buy service and doesnt work when you get home, find out who does have the service there, dont blame the people you bought a phone with but didnt research wether or not it works where you are, not their fault, not their problem, you signed the dotted line, and ultimately agreed that they and in fact most celular companies do not guarantee service indoors.
IMO owned son, you may get out of the contract due to your whining to CSR's but it isnt deserved so again I have to say, your self entitlement, is unwarranted and disgusting.
Sorry, @Valicore, but VZW doesn't have to pay you shit if they don't deliver great service on their end of the contract. That's actually in the fine print (if you read the contracts when you sign up for service). @Brad, I agree that it would be nice if cell companies would actually say that you won't get service in an area where they claim you will. @The D Train, dude, calm the fuck down. Maybe he did do research and it turned out they said he would get service in his area. They don't exactly go for exact coverage when they make those maps. I have AT&T. I love their service, but I still do get frustrated when I don't get service in places that they promise I will. That happens with any service. Geographic limitations are a bitch. It would be nice if they could work out bugs like that, but unfortunately they haven't. Maybe they'll work that out a bit when they start rolling out services on the 700 MhZ spectrum.
To brad you should try and contact verizon and let them know about the problem. I have sprint in my area is very good but inside my house i get 1-3 bars sometimes all full but is not consistent. After i go outside the house is perfect, here inside my house att and tmobile are far worst and the one i found to be good inside the house was Verizon.
Ok so i have been with sprint for 6+ years never had a problem with them and before i used to get good coverage inside the house and not no more (don't know why) i contacted sprint to ask them if i could get the monlthy service for free and I would pay for the airave if not that was ok i would just cancel my whole account pay the etf ($600 for 3 phones) and go to verizon.
Next day i received an email that i would get a free airave and free montlhy service to improve signal and if i wanted unlimited minutes for my whole account it would be $20 if not i would just have the free montly service to improve my signal. I should be expecting my airave by tuesday.
See, this is why T-Mobile has the better idea, using wi-fi. I was in London at a hot spot, and was calling home for no extra charge. They had no clue (or didn't really care)!!
Ya T-Mobile Is on to something fo sho. This too works with with-fi but it differs in that it needs a gps lock to make sure we won't do what you were able to. Its Verizon, what did you expect?
The reason this is different is that it doesn't require a special phone or any special software: it's actually a tiny cell site that uses the same technology as big cell towers, meaning it works with allllllllllll verizon phones.
Weird, why would Verizon need such a device. I thought its wonderful network worked everywhere. That is why its users put up with its higher prices and device crippling policies. Now they are saying this isn't so? Speaking of higher Verizon prices, I wonder how much they will be charging for this.
frankly i dont care how much they charge for it. im getting it.
and, not a single carrier will say on paper that they guarentee service in any shape form or fashion.
this would be great for people indoors that need additional signal. like me.
Verizon's network isn't wonderful, it just sucks less than everyone else's.
no carrier can guarantee service INSIDE of a building. it's just a limitation of the technology - line of sight, and all that. this allows morons who call in with "I drop calls *all the fkin time* inside my house. I thought your network worked everywhere?!?!" to have another option besides bitching about it. read the contract, dammit... it CLEARLY says that coverage is not guaranteed everywhere.
Big Red does have the best network in the U.S.. This is true, tested by independent companies. But even the best can't offer anything. {Insert unrelated comment here about how supposedly "the best" the iphone is, but STILL cannot do MMS or record video.... }
Verizon's maps claim "best" service at my house, though there's only 2 or 3 places where you can complete call. Outside is a little better.
No carrier can approximate every square foot of coverage.
well i have Verizon and i live in the country. i get no reception at my house unless im standing beside the window in my bedroom. other than that my phone is useless there even though the coverage map says i should have service. but the thing is, Verizon has the best coverage my house. my friends who have Sprint, T-Mobile, and AT&T all have a complete deadzone at my house.
either way, im getting this thing. hopefully they will just give me one if i complain about my service, i doubt it though.
It needs a GPS lock, yet the unit goes indoors? Does it have some type of external GPS antenna you can run outside?
it probably works using the same type of gps info that vz navigator uses when you are inside. what info that is, I dont know, but I know that it registers that I am inside, and away from a road before it tells me to get on a road, then guide me to my destination.
but either way, i dont care what other carrier works in my house, I want this. The airwave got awesome reviews, and I expect the same from this "ubicell/Network Extender", I just want to be able to use my cell in the house again. although, if I can, we might have to change our plan to accomidate our extra usage...
I hope it increased EVDO signals too, cause I primarily use data, the wife primarily uses voice.
This product is a total joke compared to T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home service, which has been working just fine since its launch on June 27, 2007. With T-Mobile, you can use your existing WiFi -- at home, at the office, or any other place anywhere in the world. How many of those boxes do you need to cover your office? How many of those boxes for all the other carriers -- Sprint, AT&T and soon others such as Cox and Clearwire? When you're traveling abroad, you also can save up to $5 per minute by using WiFi, so if you chat 100 minutes per day when you're abroad, that could be as much as $500 per day in savings with WiFi over the Femtocell solution. $500 per day for 30 days per year -- hmm, that's $15,000, or the price of a Toyota Corolla. Surely that justifies having a T-Mobile account just for that reason alone.
I will reiterate Anton's comments regarding T-Mobile's Hotspot service. I can link up to any Wi-Fi and run my network off the internet getting crystal clear reception and it doesn't touch my monthly minute allotment. It's the only way to go if you have poor service in your house. It amazes me that none of the larger domestic carriers (US) have caught on with this; leaving Verizon for T-Mobile was a great decision. It's cheaper, the service is better due to Hotspot, and the hardware/software crush Big Red.
As for coverage issues, just because you have a tower parked across the street doesn't necessarily mean you will get great service. The construction type of the structure can weigh heavily on how deep and whether the signal can penetrate the building. Also, your hardware's antennae can also play a factor in your ability to catch a strong signal in the building.
Yes Please!!! We're in a fringe area between multiple towers, and depending on the wind we may or may not drop calls.
This would be an immediate purchase in my house.
I really don't get the point of these things.
Basically, I'm going to pay Verizon extra, on top of my regular monthly service, to pretty much make my own service usable - which, correct me if I'm wrong, is Verizon's responsibility by default. Mmm.
Has anyone come across the actual filing with the FCC that was mentioned in the post?
Wow...this was so much fun to read. ETF's are SO easy to get out of. And I'd love an AIRWAVE-equivalent for AT&T once it becomes available. I never knew of their existence until this blog. I have great service at home, so I don't need it until...well, when I'll need it, but it's nice to know that it'll be there. :)