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Mobile operator EE<\/a> has quietly confirmed that their indoor femtocell based signal booster device (‘Signal Box<\/em>‘), which used an existing fixed line broadband ISP connection to create its own indoor 3G<\/a> mobile signal over a specific band (e.g. 2100MHz), will be “fully closed<\/em>” (for existing customers) by 30th June 2022.<\/p>\n

The move does not come as much of a surprise because such devices have largely already been replaced by the spread of Wi-Fi Calling<\/strong> across the UK’s major operators. This uses your home or other internet (broadband) connection to serve mobile calls and text (SMS) messages via WiFi<\/a>. Likewise, the wider UK plans to sunset 2G and 3G<\/a> services represent another nail in the coffin of such devices (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> It’s important not to confuse these devices with indoor signal repeaters<\/em>, which merely boost an existing mobile signal.<\/div>\n

As a result of the above, mobile operators have been steadily withdrawing their femtocell \/ microcell based signal boosters (here<\/a>). Similarly, EE<\/a> had already stopped selling their Signal Boxes<\/strong> to new customers. Suffice to say, it was only a matter of time before the service was fully closed, although in July 2021 the operator refused to say when this might occur and said they “continue to support existing customers.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

However, at some point over the past month or so, EE<\/a> has updated their Signal Box page to state that they’re “planning to fully close the 3G<\/a> Signal Box service by 30 June 2022<\/em>.” The catch is that, for some people, Wi-Fi Calling is still far from a perfect service (i.e. support varies between Smartphones and it may struggle to work in areas of weak or congested WiFi<\/a>) and they would have preferred to retain the Signal Box for a little longer. Sadly, it was not to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mobile operator EE has quietly confirmed that their indoor femtocell based signal booster device (‘Signal Box‘), which used an existing fixed line broadband ISP connection to create its own indoor 3G mobile signal over a specific band (e.g. 2100MHz), will be “fully closed” (for existing customers) by 30th June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,61,405,60,476],"class_list":["post-29800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-3g","tag-4g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nMobile Operator EE UK Confirms Closure of 3G Signal Box Service - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mobile operator EE has quietly confirmed that their indoor femtocell based signal booster device ('Signal Box'), which used an existing fixed line\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/mobile-operator-ee-uk-confirms-closure-of-3g-signal-box-service.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mobile Operator EE UK Confirms Closure of 3G Signal Box Service - 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