#signal boosters

CD-R King and other retailers have signed an agreement with telco giant, Globe Telecom, to discontinue the sale of illegal repeaters and signals boosters in the country. Globe Telecom and major gadgets and IT equipment retailers CD-R King General Merchandise, Electronics Boutique and Smile-Com have signed an agreement that will stop the sale of repeaters or signal boosters that do not comply with specifications set by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). This agreement is in accordance to the NTC Memorandum Order 01-02-2013 that prohibits the selling, purchasing, importing, or using of repeaters or boosters that are not approved by the commission in an effort to prevent harmful interference to the Cellular Mobile Networks. Repeaters or signal boosters are antennas that boost network signals in areas with weak coverage by hogging bandwidth from legitimate network infrastructures. However, there are reports of loss in signal even as far down as Paranaque and Cavite (our team in Cavite reported PLDT Ultera services went down to a crawl and CSR confirmed) as far up as Caloocan and Bulacan. Cell signal is then automatically restored once the Pope leaves a specific area. Rest assured that mobile signal will be restored as soon as we get a go signal from the NTC. Read more in our articles including "CD-R King and retailers to stop selling signal boosters" and "NTC ask telcos to turn off network services during Papal visit".