Au and SOFTBANK MOBILE to eliminate indoor "out of service"

Previously at GIGAZINEThe Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications may revise the system so that small base stations of cellular phones can be easily installed at the user's home, shops and offices by the summer of this year, so that "out of the service area" may be lostWe tell you that, au and SOFTBANK MOBILE auction officially issued a license for the installation of a small base station from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

With this, au, SOFTBANK MOBILE users are less likely to be "out of the service area" indoors than before.

Details are as below.
Reports from the Radio Regulatory Council on Comprehensive Licenses of Specified Radio Stations Affiliated with KDDI Corporation and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Co., Ltd.

Reports from the Radio Regulatory Council on comprehensive licenses of specified radio stations affiliated with SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

According to this release, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications is widely spread as an information communication system that is most familiar to the people's lives, as well as the use of indoors not only outdoors but also indoors such as at home and shops, The need is growing.

And the other day, in order to promote the elimination of "out of the range" of mobile phones indoors, a compact, low-power repeater (radio wave transmitter / receiver) capable of being installed cheaply and quickly at a user's home, In response to the growing demand for the introduction of relay stations, it seems that au and SOFTBANK MOBILE gave comprehensive license on compact repeater installation.

As a result, au and Softbank Mobile said that it was possible to install repeaters at home and in shops of users, which had been delayed in maintenance due to the necessity of individual licenses to install so far, at low cost and quickly Thing.

Although it is pleasing to make it easier for radio waves to enter, it seems that the excuse of "I could not make a call outside the coverage area" seems to be difficult to use.