Welcome to the world of the t68i's inferior reception coupled with the 1900mhz band's inability to penetrate walls. I think about getting rid of mine on a weekly basis, but everything else about it is great. Come January I'll be upgrading to the best small phone with bluetooth and decent reception.

Anyways, I did manage to find this from an archived usenet post back in '00. It's close. Any of or italian members know any more about these? Perhaps they want to go into antena smuggling as a side job?


in Italy we have what you are looking for !!!
As you may well know, Italy has (according to last census) 57 million
people, and according to this month statistics, 28 million GSM cellphones.
Yes we are the world leaders numerically talking for the GSM market.

As you may immagine, in the store you can find every sort of gizmo for GSM.

There are for sale passive and active repeaters:

The passive ones are basically two antennas connected with a low loss
coaxial wire. The external one is a directional antenna, and the internal
one is a small panel. It works if you have signal outside, or near the
windows, of your apartment. They range from 50 Euro to 80 Euro.

The active ones instead are like the passive ones, with a difference that
they have an amplifier in between. They range from 150 Euro to the most
powerfull ones at 300 Euro. This things are made in Italy, France or Taiwan.
Some of them requires a double coaxial cable with two antennas outside and a
double panel inside. They usually work with 12 DC Volt.

1 Problem: Italy has GSM 900-1800 MHz and I have seen repeaters only for 900
MHz.


Matthew