Sprint introduces Airave

Sprint introduces Airave

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Published on: 30 July, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Sprint introduces Airave

The Samsung Airave acts as a mini-tower for customers, giving them great reception and unlimited calling at home...

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who seriously asked if you need sprint mobile broadband to use this?
if you have poor cell service you'll have poor mobile broadband service,

thats like putting square wheels on a car that doesnt run.
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You will have a WEP key to access the tower so no your neighors can't use it. You also cant travel with it because it will be locked based on the GPS location where it is first actived.
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You cant have a WEP key unless the device has IEEE 802.11 IE Wireless/Wifi. Most sprint handsets do not have wifi simply because of rev. a so i doubt it will be password protected but more or less be limited to how many singnals it can connect at once.
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You can pay extra to have more phones access the connection, that means the connection is tracked via the phone's ESN, not GPS stupid.
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anyone who has any of the air rave plans can access this device, but you can limit the numbers via sprint.com online account. So you can locked down who can use it.
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RE:17 Obviously you have no idea what your talking about. EVDO-rev.a is fast but HSPA+ is a little bit faster on at&t. The only issue with HSPA+ is it's not been deployed throughout all of at&t's 3g coverage, which btw isn't nearly as large of a footprint as sprint's EVDO-rev a. The other part you fail to mention is verizon also has EVDO-rev.a with a similar coverage map as sprint. But honestly a mini cell tower for you house or basement is a huge win for consumers that want to ditch their land line, but don't get very good cell reception in their home. It doesn't matter which company your with they all will tell you they don't guarantee cell coverage in buildings. I only hope at&t and verizon will someday jump on board with this technology because their is a huge demand for it. But I don't know if verizon ever will, because that would mean they would half to swallow their pride and finally admit that their damn network isn't perfect. Lol
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I think the idea of this device is fatastic. What I don't like about is that if all sprint phone will be able to use it then the consuer who purchases the device and spends 100.00 for the device (which is nothing by the way, as most decent bluetooth headsets cost more), but it allows other people who didn't pay for the device to use it. At least that is my understanding of it anyways. I would also like to know how seccure it is as far as privacy. Will it be password protected, how many channels will it support for calls; one, two, ten? I also don't like the idea that as a consumer you are helping with sprints poor coverage by spending an extra 5.00/month thru a broadband connect you have to provide elsewhere. If anything, sprint should credit you $5.00/month for taking on the burden of their poor network. Speed isn't anything with connectivity. The idea is great, but the service should be free b/c you are purchasing your own device, and you have to provide your own connection.
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I got the device for free just by saying that I was going to cancel my sevice because of poor service! Just threaten them that you will leave and they'll give youwhat you want.
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RE:38 You should NOT have to threaten to leave the company you do business just to make them listen. Anyone else see something wrong with that? That is why sprint sux.
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