I've mentioned this before, but maybe someone out there maybe didn't see - As mentioned earlier, we live too far out to get a land line phone. Have always had to practically stand upside down in the south window just to get a signal SOME of the time! Now, we have a phone box that allows us to use normal, cordless phones in the house. As this phone box is primarily meant as a data router/modem, we actually found out purely by accident that we now had internet in the area - albeit at the time very splotchy! Now we have quite reliable internet and a home telephone that virtually never fails! I think the system was down one time over the last 15 years or so. Of course, during most of those years the signal was so poor that we really wouldn't have known if the tower was down or not.
Anyway, the "box" we have is the Novatel T-1114, and I must say this thing is impressive! It picks up even a weak signal with great ease! So if you have need of cellular in an area with poor reception, you might consider looking into one of these Novatel router/modems.
Back when the new gov't repeater tower was getting fine-tuned, I went and bought the top-of-the-line WeBoost power booster, and it actually made the overall signal a little worse with it's outdoor aerial antennae over this little box sitting inside the house in the south-facing window. So I'm extremely impressed with this little box! And yes, it IS little. This is one for sell on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Novatel-Verizon-Broadband-Router-T1114/dp/B00JL57PMG), but we got ours free (while that was still an option) and it only cost us $20/month for unlimited phone with no long distance in the US. Now with the new unlimited plan, there's no charge to Canada or Mexico either, so now we no longer have to be afraid if our phone picks up on a Canadian tower.
When we went to Arkansas, we'd take this with us and we had our cordless phones and internet available as well, as we really don't like using that so-called "smart phone". Wife got that before having to make that 1,100 mile trip by herself one time. Anyway, we now pay a touch over $110/month for two devices that both provide us unlimited calls, unlimited text on the smart(?) phone (not that we ever text!), and up to 32gig/month of 4g internet with unlimited 3G after that. The phone box is not a phone, so cannot take advantage of the higher allowance for non-hotspot usage. Still, for just being $4 and change more than our old 6gig/month price, that's a great value!! ...At least in my opinion. We're very pleased to be able to stream TV, look up information, meet you great folks and to order things that simply would not be available to us otherwise.
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