Universal Repeater installed and operational
February 20th, 2008Since our building reopened in July 2007, Verizon customers have experienced strong signal strength within the building because Verizon generously donated and installed a cellular repeater system. However, Science Now, Science Everywhere is for all mobile phone users so we had to also purchase and install a universal cellular repeater. Beginning this month, mobile phone users with service from AT&T, Nextel, Cingular, T-Mobile, are Sprint are now seeing better signal reception in the building. This new level of coverage has been made possible through funding from the National Science Foundation. In order to conduct research on this type of technology and follow due diligence in selecting the appropriate system, it was a cross divisional effort which included the SNSE team, Engineering, Grants team and our IT staff. Once the contractor was selected, walkthroughs determined the appropriate locations of the repeaters, the parts were ordered and the system was installed. Thanks to Cellular Solutions, all mobile phone users are now able to use SNSE effectively.