This article corrects an earlier version that stated T-Mobile’s Personal Cellspot was produced by Nextivity. It was actually developed in partnership with ASUS. The CEL-FI Duo booster discussed in the story was announced by Nextivity on 9/17, not as part of T-Mobile’s Un-carrier 7.0 announcement.
When T-Mobile announced its Uncarrier 7.0 initiative, which included Wi-Fi calling on all phones, it also offered to give customers in poor coverage areas something called a Personal Cellspot, essentially a residential signal booster. While not necessarily a new technology, the Cellspot represents a novel solution by a major carrier to solve the coverage conundrum…
Written by Andrew Berg