Sprint offers femtocells nationwide
- July 31st, 2008
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Sprint is expanding its femtocell offering nationwide, including cheaper unlimited voice plans.
The Airave by Samsung hooks up to your home broadband connection to improve indoor wireless coverage for any Sprint phone (Nextel handsets are not compatible yet). Customers can also opt in for an unlimited in-home calling plan starting at just $10 per month. Sprint says the Airave improves coverage up to 5,000 square feet.
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Ankit (Who am I?)
3 months ago
A one time fee and a monthly fee? $20/month for family plans?
Give it to customers for a small one time fee (one per household?) and make your money on their cell phone usage when they’re not at home. This does many things:
1. Decreases the load on your cell towers - more customers per tower on average
2. Convenient for the customer
3. Incentive for the customer to use their cell phone more, becoming even more dependent on it
4. This would be a competitive advantage over other companies, a unique offering.
I haven’t used Sprint in quite a while and don’t really ever see a reason to, but things like this might make me think twice.