Solution to poor mobile phone reception

摘要

The February 2014 issue had a question from someone who has a problem with phone reception. We are in a known phone black spot, with telephone lines that Telstra has admitted can't handle data and very patchy mobile communications. Every month or so, I am on-call for work, so I need to be contacted by various people and due to the crook reception, I have to stand on the veranda of the house to receive or make telephone calls. That is somewhat inconvenient. My Blackberry didn't have an aerial socket, so an external antenna wasn't an option. If the phone was placed on the bedside table at just the right angle, I could receive texts and emails and even though the phone would ring, calls wouldn't hold up, so I would just walk outside to take them. Again, inconvenient but workable.