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Due to the construction materials of an office building, cell phone reception is poor, and it's quite common that calls are dropped.

AT&T, Verizon, and RIM are the typical cell phone networks used (iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries).

Is there a way to boost the signal somehow to provide a better signal? Would I have to attach something to the ethernet network? (there is limited bandwidth, so I would like to avoid this)

Force Flow
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    You will need a GSM repeater. – Mircea Vutcovici May 01 '12 at 19:52
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    Why was this closed? It deals with infrastructure. I did some more digging, and found a similar question that was still open: http://serverfault.com/questions/101885/extending-cell-phone-coverage-and-reception-strength-in-basement-do-cell-phone – Force Flow May 02 '12 at 13:30
  • Yep, the closing is ridiculous. – gparent May 03 '12 at 14:14
  • @ForceFlow, for what it's worth, that question was asked back in 2010 - the ServerFault scope has changed a bit since then so a question allowed back then may not be on-topic now. – tombull89 May 03 '12 at 14:19

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You'll need to use either a local GSM/CDMA repeater or enable some sort of service (such as UMA) that can tunnel the connection back to the wireless provider over WiFi instead of cellular.

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