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Getting Mobile Reception In War Zone Afghanistan Is A Bitch

5:00AM May 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The next time you complain about your mobile service, keep this photo in mind: two Afghan National Army soldiers, perched atop a blast wall, struggling to get a signal. The reason? The Taliban often scares telecoms into shutting off service. [In Focus] More »


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Verizon’s LTE Services Goes Down For The First Time

11:55PM April 27, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

It’s been several hours according to Verizon Wireless customers (some of whom work for your favourite tech site), but Verizon’s LTE service shows no sign of going back up. All over the US there have been confirmed outages, with some also reporting their 3G network is down also. More »


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AT&T’s ARMZ: Emergency Cellular Tower In A Suitcase

12:52AM April 26, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

AT&T Just started selling the ARMZ, a cellular tower that fits into a suitcase. It’s meant to fill the air with cellular signals in the case of a disaster where existing towers cease to work or, well, exist. More »


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How To Survive Horrible Mobile Phone Reception

4:00AM April 21, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

You probably use your mobile phone as your primary phone line, and since it’s with you all the time, that’s extremely convenient. It turns into a problem, however, when you’re stuck with crappy reception. If you regularly deal with bad service — whether at home, at work, or anywhere else you frequent — here are a few of the best ways to deal with it (short of moving). More »


Verizon Customers With Crappy Service: Your 3G Microsite Is Here

6:19AM October 20, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Live in an unfortunately located apartment or rural area (or any other reception phantom zone)? Verizon will let you turn your net connection into 12m of 3G. This is still, however, a pricey fix for bad service. More »


This Chip Could Bring You Perfect Reception Without Resentment

5:40AM September 18, 2010 | Sam Biddle

So it’s a quandary. Your house is in a service dead zone, and you don’t want to shell out hundreds more for something you’re paying for already. What’s worth more, principle or a functioning phone? That decision might be over. More »


Apple Ending Free iPhone 4 Case Program Sept 30

4:52AM September 11, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

September is here and as promised Apple has re-evaluated their iPhone case initiative. The verdict: “we are discontinuing the free case program on all iPhone 4s sold after September 30, 2010″. But they’ll still give you one if you complain. More »


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Test Your iPhone 4′s Reception With Field-Test Mode In iOS 4.1

8:38AM September 9, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Now you can put your iPhone in field-test mode, which will allow you to easily test your signal strength. You just need to follow these steps: More »


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Rumour: New iPhone 4 Antenna Design Coming Late September

3:07AM September 1, 2010 | Jason Chen

An executive at Mexican mobile phone carrier Telcel claims that Apple has a revised iPhone 4 coming late September that fixes the annoying antenna problems everyone’s seen with the original model. More »


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iPhone 4′s Proximity Sensor Problem Won’t Be Fixed In iOS 4.1

2:32AM August 31, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Back in July, at the iPhone 4 Antennagate conference, Steve Jobs acknowledged the iPhone 4′s proximity sensor issues and said they’d be fixed in the “next update”. According to an Apple Australia spokesperson, they won’t. More »