I got one of these a few weeks ago and it works awesome. If any of you are familiar with the terrain of the Stoon to Humboldt corridor and the cell phone coverage you will understand the improvement. With the booster, my signal strength was never less than full bars! The cradle is universal so any phone will work.I finally found a bluetooth headset that works for me in some of the noisy environments I am in. Its called the Jawbone and their website has links to CNN, Good Morning America, etc where it made the news with its background noise cancelling capabilities. I had looked at a Smoothtalker booster and I think they will put out a bit more but the cradles are phone specific so every time you switch phones you need a new cradle.

 

Sounds like what I need when I`m in areas that my cell coverage is lacking.
What was the cost of the Wilson cell phone booster?

 

Morris it was $299 and it came with an antenna.

 

If the cell phone booster works well then I think it`s a bargin, nothing worse then being some where and needing to make a call on a cell only to find that you have no service.
The other day I sorta got stuck down at the bottom of pit with the gravel truck when going for a load of sand, there was no one around in that particular pit and luckily I could get a cell call out for a tow.

 

i've often thought of getting one too, but held off in hopes that the service area would get better...

 

That's what I'm going to have to get. Reception in our area really stinks.

 

We are getting two towers here - one is almost done then the crew is starting on the next one - it will fill in our dead areas.
I was going to set the booster up to be portable into all farm equipment but we will now have good coverage everywhere so it will remain in my truck. It could easily be made portable to fit ino one of the old Motorola bag phone cases. One thing to note - the connection to the phone is passive and it works betteer on phones that do not have an external antenna. I recently met with Transgas to do some line locates for some RM road construction and he had the same setup in his truck but with an older Motorola phone with an antenna - we compared coverage between his and mine and there was no comparisson! The newer phones w/o an external antenna use the case itself as the antenna so it picks up the passive signal better than the ones that rely on an antenna.

 

are you guys using sasktel?? i'm with rogers and i find it better than sasktel in some places, plus the roaming is great...

 

I`m with Sask-tel since most of the places I work in Rodgers doesn`t have any coverage at all.

 

I hear from many people Sask-tel has way better coverage than Rogers

 

That's what I have heard to! We are with Sask-tel here to!

 

In cities and along most major highway corridors the Rogers phones work. They have better plans and are cheaper. Once you travel in rural areas, a blanket for sending smoke signals is about as effective! In most of our area a Rogers phone wont even pick up enough signal strength to place a call.

 

Yah I have heard they are bad for that Rogers isnt good for out of town use

 

well, having a rogers phone, i've got to say that my service is almost as good as sasktel. i've gotten better coverage in a place or 2 that a sasktel phone hasn't... that being said, there's likely many places where a sasktel phone would work and my rogers not...

 

My woman was talking about getting a cell booster for her cabin at the lake, but we decided that who needs to be able to talk on a cell up there

As for the whole rogers VS sasktel, Ive had both, and there was a huge difference when I went to sasktel. Rogers does have a TAD cheaper better deals, and they do have some neat phones, but the reception was so terrible with rogers that I wanted to hang myself.

When I lived in PA, there was times that I could barely get reception when I was down in the basement (it wasnt the phone either, had that checked) Once you head out of town, forget it, most places there was zero reception, even on the highways where they claimed there was supposed to be.

Im not the only one that had that complaint either, alot of people i knew switched over for the better service.

Sherm, when you say you've gotten better coverage in a few places with a rogers phone, Id have to see it to believe it. Ive had rogers for about two years virgin mobile for a year, now sasktel for almost two years.
Once ya take a peek at the coverage areas covered by both companies, you'll see why I switched over. (unless rogers got a bunch of different towers lately)