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grumbler

grumbler wrote: »

The facts are:

• It is legal to sell them.
• It is legal to have them.
• It is illegal to use them and (IIRC) the fine is up to £5K.

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The legal ways to boost your mobile phone reception

Interestingly, Scan.co.uk recently started selling boosters for O2 and EE:

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]LN46850 [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Nextivity Cel-Fi RS210 Coverage Booster for Orange/T-Mobile/EE [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]LN46851[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Nextivity Cel-Fi RS210 Coverage Booster f[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]or O2[/FONT]

£450 price is simply riduculous, but they work without internet connection:

• It is very simple to install the cel-fi signal boosters. Each of the two units require only a small space. One unit sits on your window sill to pick up the signal, and the other somewhere inside to boost it throughout the building.
• Some other mobile phone signal boosters require a broadband connection to work, but not the Cel-fi RS2 units from Nextivity. All you need is a small space to store the two boxes and a standard mains plug for each. It's that easy...

I wonder if these are legal to use...