Dear Hidden-Tech Community, Thank you all for your very helpful comments on my request for information about amplifying and/or repeating the cell phone signal at my house. My service is AT&T, and I don't want to switch at this time for a number of reasons. I believe my phone is actually using the Lawton Hill tower (Verizon?), and the service did improve somewhat when I upgraded to the Fuze from the old Cingular 8125 -- new SIM, 3G and all. I don't have to worry about roaming. Many of you confirmed what I suspected, that extending the signal won't do much if the signal isn't very good in the first place. And one of the locations for my last employer did use a T-Mobile device on the local network that connected through the firewall to a tower so that there'd be reception within the building. It worked pretty well (my AT&T phone worked fine with it), and it didn't take up too much bandwidth as I had feared, with 20 employees at the site who were in and out all the time. Thanks especially to Jim Ussailis, Tom Goldsmith and Matt Lampiasi for your thorough and informative explanations about the technology. And special thanks to Maria Korolov who looked beyond the solution I was looking to implement and focused on the actual problem I was trying to solve. I'm going to see how Google Voice works so maybe I won't need to install any expensive equipment to get my cell phone to work here. (Besides, someday there'll be a tower that will reach me, with Gov. Patrick's technology initiates, right? After all, it took only 13 years to get Comcast to extend cable from the center of Williamsburg out to the Conway town line ;-) -Lynn Goodhue