John

I too chose this over the {very expensive and may work} repeater/signal booster solutions.

Hope this helps.

I also feel the need to point out that, while many of your AT&T directed comments approach mental incompetence, all of the other carriers have an almost identical option. This solution was designed for people in my situation. If your situation is not similar, you really should look at other products and leave this post to those of us in the target demographic. At least include the other, nearly identical, vendor products in your misguided and ill informed rants/!

Final point: I am technical by trade. In addition to the previously mentioned R&D costs, some consideration should be given to the infrastructure that allows (hop-off) routing of your cell traffic over the internet. That stuff still has to be managed for this to work.

Now, just so I understand — this works fine for outgoing calls, but for incoming calls you’re still tethered to the nearest AT&T cell tower only?

If so, then this is only a quasi solution for me. In my basement office I rarely know when someone calls until I see the voicemails hours later.

Would be great if it worked both ways, but for $150 and a rebate I may test it out anyway.

Thanks again.

For the record, when I signed up with AT&T, they guaranteed that I would have service within L.A. County. However, despite the fact that I live in West L.A. in densely populated area, I cannot get reliable cell coverage. More than 50% of my cell phone calls to people with land-lines get dropped and, during “peak” hours, there are many times that the network is too jammed to let me place a call.

I do not expect my cell phone to work EVERYWHERE I go, but when I signed up for AT&T service, I expected it to work at my home in West L.A. 24/7, which is far from the service that I’ve received.

From my perspective, my expectations are completely reasonable, and AT&T has failed to deliver, period. IMHO, AT&T is guilty of false advertising, and to tell me that the only solution to my problem is to pay the additional fees associated with getting and using a microcell is digital highway robbery.

I understand that AT&T should be responsible for providing coverage to their customers, but we live in an old home under several very mature trees and have had issues with satellite TV as well.

I am VERY happy with this as a solution, it is working perfectly and AT&T did work with us to make this available at little to no cost. Obviously, they did have records of all of my calls and my time with tech support and I guess that helped document an ongoing issue, but still….

I am happy that finally – my iPhone is a fully functioning phone as well as a fun little gadget :)

I know AT&T is also offering rebates, etc, and there is a 30 day money back guarantee on the Microcell, so really if you don’t want it,cool, but if you do, try to work something out with AT&T instead of just bashing them???

Netflix and such mainly just use the downstream so unless you often upload data you will most likely be OK. Most ISPs offer lots of downsteam, but limited upstream. We pay for supercharged road runner and get 10 mbps down but only like 500 kbps up.