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Sprint Airave, Your Own Personal Cell Tower Box, Goes On Sale Nationwide

Sprint and Samsung's femtocell answer to T-Mo's Hotspot@Home is now available everywhere after localized tests in Indy and Denver apparently went well enough to push it nationwide. The box connects to your router, allowing you to make calls over the web with any Sprint CDMA phone. It's $100 for the box, plus $15 per month for unlimited calls for one line, or $25 per month for a family plan, which is pricier than T-Mo's Hotspot. But if your house is in a Sprint dark spot (and you haven't switched providers, for some reason), this is for you. [Sprint]

1:13 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By John Mahoney
2,060 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: People...go to the sprint website...don't trust just anything you read. The website clearly states these aren't available until 8/17. here is the link: [www.nextel.com] more »

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Sprint Airave Femtocell Launching Nationwide July 15

It's been a while since we've heard about Sprint's Airave femtocell—basically a little box connects to your router and sends your calls over the internet so you have cell service even where you don't—but it looks like it's finally set to launch nation-wide, maybe as early as July 15. (It's been (in Denver and Indianapolis since Sept.) The Sammy-made station is apparently set to go for $99 at retail, which ain't so shabby. We're guessing the $30 per family (or $15 per user) monthly fee will either stick or actually go down (undercutting is one of their major strategies of late). [Sprint Users, Thanks Art!] More »

8:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By matt buchanan
3,086 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: The ignorance I'm seeing on here amazes me. Other users cannot use your service unless they are pretty much in your house or in your front yard. The launch date is 8/17, and no...Sprint should not give these out to more »

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Motorola and Airvana To Make High-Speed Cell-to-Broadband Boxes

One of the ugliest named cool new technologies is the "femtocell," a desktop-friendly cell tower that connects to your broadband network to add cell service where it otherwise might be crappy. Today Motorola and Airvana announced that they are partnering to build CDMA femtocells that provide standard 1xRTT and high-speed EV-DO connectivity. It's not clear whether this would be geared for the home, like Sprint's Samsung Airave (which, though cool, apparently doesn't do EV-DO). This one might be more for businesses, but we hope that changes—and that Verizon follows Sprint's lead and picks it up—because I would love to have the ability to add cell service to my home as needed. Wouldn't you? [Airvana]

9:33 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,715 views, 12 comments

Latest by rimplestultskin: well, since my cell phone seems to work everywhere in my county except for the town i live in, this would kick ass. what would be really cool is if they give you EV-DO, and don't charge you power vision usage more »

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Sprint/Samsung Instant Cell-to-Wi-Fi Box Is Official, Named Airave

Sprint's answer to T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home, Airave, makes its official debut today in Denver and Indianapolis before hitting the rest of the country next year. Samsung's femtocell-powered box can handle three calls at once and will go for $50, with the service running $15 a month per person or $30 per family. While you have to pay for the box (unlike H@H), you can use any Sprint phone with it since it blasts a local CDMA channel before sending the signal through the tubes, which might just make it worth the price of admission—well, that and unlimited free calls from your couch. Full presser:
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9:27 AM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Matt Buchanan
10,767 views, 6 comments

Latest by Buford T. Justice: IMO both are valid. Sprint's approach allows ALL phones to take advantage of the coverage improvement. No WiFi means no huge battery hit, and EVRC is light enough that even 3 calls won't impact bandwidth much. Bad side is that you more »