AT&T 3G MicroCell trials starting this week, retail in June or later?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Apr 8th 2009 11:10AM
posted Apr 8th 2009 11:10AM
[Thanks, anonymous tipster]
Dear AT&T 3G MicroCell Participant,
We are pleased to announced that the AT&T 3G MicroCell Trial plan is finalized. Thank you for your patience as we worked through all the details to make this Trial a success.
Although fundamentally the same, some aspects of the Trial have changed. Please carefully consider the following:
* The unit will be delivered Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Fed Ex with no signature required.
* The Trial will conclude in approximately 8 weeks, on or around Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
* The payment for fully participating in this Trial is $200.00 - you may keep the 3G MicroCell unit at the conclusion of the Trial.
* Although we ask you to install the unit and take the installation survey as soon as possible, there is no extra incentive for this effort.
* Fewer customers will be participating in the Trial.
To participate in the Trial you must:
* Be in town on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, the day of delivery.
* Not be travelling away from your home for more than one week during the 8 week duration of the Trial.
* Not move during the Trial.
* Actively use a 3G cell phone, as indicated by the 3G logo next to the bars on the phone.
* Maintain your AT&T cell phone service for the duration of the Trial.
* Maintain your high speed internet service for the duration of the Trial.
* Install the unit by Sunday, April 12, 2009.
* Take 3 online surveys within a reasonable period of time.
* Sign a new participant agreement to reflect the schedule and plan (all noted above).
If you are still interested and are able to participate in the Trial, please email me back before end of day on Thursday, March 26, 2009. We will contact you in the next 7 to 10 days to finalize plans.
We deeply appreciate both your business and your willingness to help improve our products. Thank you again for your patience and flexibility.
How did you sign up for this? I would have loved to do this but I never heard of a way to sign up.
How the hell do I get one :(
Same here! I conduct work on my phone daily from home, which is near impossible with my signal going in and out all day. Takes a lot of patience. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these. :)
Yeah I definitely need one. Hopefully they won't charge an insane monthly fee for it.
Do you get unlimited minutes whenever you use this baby?
Personally I'd rather have unlimited minutes using wifi calling, like T-Mobile, that way you could make free calls from any wifi spot in the world.
At the same time, I almost never use up my anytime minutes and whats left over just piles up on my already substantial rollover minutes. I could see people who make a lot of cell phone calls from home benefiting from this though.
Now let me get this straight. AT&T will soon have a device to boost the abominable service in my own home. When it's ready and functional I will then have the privilege of paying them even more (yet another contract) for service I already have for "more bars in more places"? I think they should start paying me.......for all the bars I never have.
I agree with "greatday" 100%
I have to "pay" extra for "more bar in more places?"
AT&T - "More bars in more places you will never be."
For this to be really really useful in a city like SF where everyone has an iPhone but AT & T only has marginal service AT & T should allow users to roam on other user's MicroCell. They could build out a huge neighbor net to make the iPhone into a functional device.
Its sad that I shelled out $300 for the phone, $300 for the T-moble ETF, $30 a month for non existent 3G and I am going to shell out the $200 for this device too. All for a phone that just doesn't work. I'm a sucker.
where does it say 200 buck for this thing?
From the email:
"The payment for fully participating in this Trial is $200.00 - you may keep the 3G MicroCell unit at the conclusion of the Trial."
where does it say 200 bucks for this thing
no, you get paid for the trial and also keep the microcell. or am I reading this wrong?
i dont know where you got the 200 as a pricetag. it never said anything about a price, just the 200 you get for participating.
I have had ATT for years and I can never receive or send a call from my cell while inside my apartment. I have to be out on the road. My service is worse than what is available in so called "third world countires", which by the way are now "first world countires" as far as the latest technology goes. ATT makes a lot of noise about their bars and service but to what use if you cannot get a signal inside your home. Tmobile works inside my apartment and that is what I am going to change to.
I Have Looked to the day when Rural America,...(Neighborhoods Located just out of the
Range Of all Cellular Carriar,s Sigplyingnal Reach) GSM TDMA CDMA etc, Many service providers fell short by a mere 20 Miles +or - in building Cell towers due to customer demand being minimal and Cost effectiveness not being feasable, To Run a T-1 Phone Line up to the non-comercialized mountianous Foothills or say, a Micro-Wave Link Just has to only when a Community of a Larger Volume (Like Conifer. Colo) and the I-70 Corridor is it a viable cost effective endevour to Build Cellular Towers for the masses for mobile communications, voice and Data, even Video,.....and only Telco (Telephone Men of Yester year) actually wired to massive numbers of rural America,s Mountain Homes and Cabin's,...only to decline in providing actual DSL in many cases. Dial up is not acceptable When needing high bandwith or DSL speeds for real Resume sending,.. at work at home computer Server based business's,... The alternative has been Satallite Uplink at an inflated cost 100.00 per month Plus, and for a Start-Up Home Business that is a set back as it is Too costly to Small time mom and pop folks in the Hills. AT&T,s 3G Microcell is a great leap forward in the FCC.s efforts to "bring HIGH SPEED DSL and 3G/ & 4G NEXT GENERATION Communications to the overdue RuRAL AMERICA