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A cellphone with a Wilson ‘Sleek’ mobile signal booster installed...

A cellphone with a Wilson ‘Sleek’ mobile signal booster installed in a vehicle “provides a 3 times increase in the overall coverage area of a single cell site for both voice and data service vs. a cell phone without a…

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booster,” Wilson Electronics said in a report filed last week at the FCC. “A booster increases connectivity to distant cell sites that would normally be inaccessible without a booster.” Wilson submitted results from tests conducted in Utah, using signals from a single Verizon Wireless cell site. The tests found that in most cases, with the use of a booster, cellphones got data throughput rates of 200 kbps on the uplink side and 768 kbps for downlinks. “The booster enables vastly improved data throughput … while without the booster, there is no data throughput or very low throughput,” Wilson said.