The ATT mico-cell is touted as a 3G device. Question is will it work with any ATT GSM phone or must it be a 3G phone? I have an older Moto Razr, will it work if I buy a mico-cell?
Hi I recently purchase the Micro-cell unit. It does work great but just 3G coverage. My reason for purchasing the unit is that I live in a basement apartment. Before installing the Micro cell unit I was lucky to get 1 bar. After the installation I'm at full strength. One problem I ran into though is that I had an un-locked BB 9700 from T-Mobile but Micro-cell would not sync. with the BB9700. I was assured at the AT&T store assured me it would. Wrong info from them! After working with AT&T support for a couple of days the problem was the phone. As soon as I was able to get a AT&T 9700 it sync right up. I had purchased the T-Mobile 9700 and unlocked it myself total cost $200, I found someone looking for a T-Mobile BB 9700 who had an AT&T BB 9700 and we just traded phones. So now I'm with AT&T with no contract my only investment with them is the cost of the Micro cell $150 with a $100 mail in rebate. So cost $50 plus the gave me a Otter Box for the phone and a car charger at no charge. Am I happy with AT&T service ? Yes With the service pricing? Not really but not another story!
^^AT&T and T-Mobile use different frequencies for 3G. AT&T uses 850 and 1900 MHZ, wile T-Mob uses 1700MHz. They do both use 1900MHz for 2G however, so you can use AT&T and T-Mobile phones interchangeably on 2G, but not 3G.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148a Safari/6533.18.5) My friend has one and says it's only 3G. He also says he lives it since he's in a poor signal area.
The reason for this is because integrating a low-power CDMA (like UMTS uses) cell is pretty easy. Integrating a low-power TDMA (like GSM uses) cell is a nightmare that could cause major network issues.
OP here with some feedback. Got the microcell last week; it is 3G only and I and to get new phones (my old Moto RAZR is history). BTW, got the microcell for free as I am in a non-existant signal area at home. The microcell works great, 4-5 bars in the house and I can walk around a good portion of the yard. I also use Bluetooth to link to my cordless telephones (I use a 2 line GE Bluetooth adaptor) and do not have to carry my cell phone in the house. This arrangement works so well I am thinging of dumping my land line.
the microcell, although its 3G, its 850/1900 i believe. there are blackberry 9700s out there that operate on 1700/2100 which is what Wind Mobile in Canada and T-Mobile in usa use. These will not pick up the AT&T microcell due to different technologies. make sure you buy the 9700 with 850/1900 mhz 3G hspa.
T-Mobile in the United States and WIND Mobile in Canada use 1700 MHz for their 3G services. Note the frequency pairs used. Phones transmit and receive on separate frequencies. The 2100 MHz used for the download link for Band IV is not the same band as used for the download link for Band I. Because they overlap, Bands I and IV are never used in the same locations. AT&T uses Bands II and V T-Mobile use Band IV The 2100 MHz service used in Europe, Africa and Asia uses Band I Europe and Asia may also use Band VIII UMTS frequency bands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
