Samsung’s Ubicell, first seen at CTIA, is finally finding a home on Sprint. It’s a box that you plug into the wall, at which point the box blossoms into a femtocell-powered base station good for 5000 sq feet of fresh reception. Apparently rates would be unlimited, like Tmobile’s @ Home WiFi UMA service. Good. But bad for TMobile.
https://gizmodo.com/samsung-ubicell-provides-cell-coverage-for-unabomber-ty-247538
Any Sprint cellphone will work on this hotspot, as it still uses a local CDMA channel to link to phones before sending that signal over the net. The repeater can support 3 phones or 1XRTT data sessions at once, routing calls using femtocell technology to Sprint’s infrastructure over the internet. And you can filter phone access to 50 handsets/data cards of your choosing.[Gearlog]
