Airave Home Cell Service Discontinued?

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SprintTreo9958 - 19 Jun 2008 05:18 GMT

I have been pestering my local Sprint Sellphone Palace about the
national rollout of the Denver/Indianapolis Airave home femtocell.
This would allow be to drop
Vonage and use my Sprint phones in the house.

http://www.sprintenterprise.com/airave/
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140231

The rollout was supposed to start in April, but no news since Sept
2007.

My local store mgr recently said the Airave has been discontinued.

Does anyone know if this means they have dropped plans to rollout the
Airave??

I could really use this $50 VOIP Box for my Spint Cellphone vs a $600
External to Internal Antenna Repeater system to help with signal
coverage inside my house.

Thats the main reason I still have a landline that I ported to
Vonage. Poor house cellphone reception.

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Todd Allcock - 19 Jun 2008 05:41 GMT

> I have been pestering my local Sprint Sellphone Palace about the
> national rollout of the Denver/Indianapolis Airave home femtocell.
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> Does anyone know if this means they have dropped plans to rollout the
> Airave??

I suspect they'll resurrect the idea eventually- Verizon and AT&T have
similar rollouts planned.

> I could really use this $50 VOIP Box for my Spint Cellphone vs a $600
> External to Internal Antenna Repeater system to help with signal
> coverage inside my house.
>
> Thats the main reason I still have a landline that I ported to
> Vonage. Poor house cellphone reception.

T-Mobile takes a slightly different approach with their "Hotspot@Home" UMA
service. They offer combo cellular/WiFi phones that work through any open
access point (or encrypted one you have a key for) without the need for a
femtocell. This even works overseas, eliminitating roaming charges if WiFi
is available.

You might check it out- plans with unlimited WiFi calling start at
$49.99/month.

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dafydd - 19 Jun 2008 13:38 GMT

> I have been pestering my local Sprint Sellphone Palace about the
> national rollout of the Denver/Indianapolis Airave home femtocell.
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> Thats the main reason I still have a landline that I ported to
> Vonage. Poor house cellphone reception.

The plan is to be rolling it out later this year per the info I have.
However, everything in this industry is subject to change.
They have stopped selling the Airaves completely however at this
point, as you pointed out, even in the test markets.

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Notan - 09 Sep 2008 19:59 GMT

>> I have been pestering my local Sprint Sellphone Palace about the
>> national rollout of the Denver/Indianapolis Airave home femtocell.
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> They have stopped selling the Airaves completely however at this
> point, as you pointed out, even in the test markets.

I just picked up an Airave (new price: ~$100)... Works exactly as advertised!

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