AT&T offers a small base station calle a MicroCell, which is supposed to boost your network connection at your home. In testing, we found that the AT&T MicroCell is nice, but we wouldn’t pay for one.

Sometimes also called a femtocell, a microcell is a device that uses an Internet connection to provide cellular service. Generally used by subscribers who don't get good service at their homes or ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The AT&T Microcell went into test markets a little over a year ago and has been slowly rolling ...

I tapped dial. There’s ringing, and the call goes through. It’s the first call I’ve made from my house in two years. All it took was AT&T’s 3G MicroCell to give me 5 solid bars where there were none.

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SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. iPhone users have joked that Apple’s gadget can do everything but make phone calls. The problem is partly due to congestion on AT&T’s wireless network. Now in some cities, AT&T is ...

Speculation has long held that AT&T was planning to offer a femtocell device--namely the 3G MicroCell--to its customers that would, in a manner of speaking, place an AT&T cell tower in the user's home ...

Everybody knows that using cellphones indoors can be a mixed bag: you might get lots of signal strength outside (standing in the rain) but once you step inside (where it might be, say, warm and dry) ...

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