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Case study - thames water
Thames Water contacted us to help solve the mobile signal issues in the main control centre and pump building at Lane End Water Treatment Works. The fabric of the building was blocking the mobile signal and health and safety for employees was a huge concern. Our signal engineers conducted a full site survey which included several signal tests throughout the metal clad building. The area is 700 sqm over a single floor and the priority was to provide signal on all mobile phone networks for lone working and emergencies.

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signal solutions office
The last couple of years have been super busy for the team at Signal Solutions. The engineering team has expanded (a few waist lines have also expanded … we blame the coffee and cakes) and overnight our office got smaller! Well obviously it didn’t, but it certainly felt that way! So it was time to say goodbye to the beautiful barn that has been our HQ since day one and move onto pastures new.

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poor connectivity in business
A recent study has found that British SMEs are losing a whopping £18bn each year because of poor connectivity. The research carried out by Three UK, YouGov and Development Economics highlighted that each employee was losing over one hour of work per week due to connectivity issues … this equates to 250 hours each year for a medium sized business, meaning an estimated loss to the UK economy of a staggering £7.7bn EVERY YEAR!

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Mobile signal police station
This was a large project for our team. The building is 10,000sqm, spread over 3 floors; but the main challenge for our engineers was that this facility has high security requirements. Our team needed to be escorted throughout the complex at all times. The building was extremely busy with staff carrying out confidential and sensitive work and it was paramount that our engineers remained discrete and professional.

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Case Study - DAF Truck Specialist
The HTC Group brings expertise to the haulage and distribution world for road transport, trailer manufacturing, vehicle and construction equipment sales and supportive services to the road transport industry. HTC Heathrow is the headquarters and the largest of the dealerships in the HTC Group. We were asked to install our Amplifi-Qx solution at the Heathrow head office and 3 additional DAF Truck sites; HTC Hemel Hempstead, HTC Oxford and HTC Belvedere.

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Ofcom mobile signal boosting regulations updated
Ofcom have recently introduced new changes to help expand the range of licence exempt mobile phone repeaters for consumers. Mobile phone repeaters can be used to improve mobile signal within buildings providing they don’t cause undue interference and follow Ofcom’s requirements. These devices boost the signal between a mobile operator’s base station and a mobile phone being used indoors.

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care home mobile signal booster
Nightingale Hammerson is an independent charity and leading specialist in the care of older people, comprising two care homes; Nightingale House in Clapham and Hammerson House, in Hampstead.  We were contacted to fix the serious mobile signal problem that the Hammerson House care home was experiencing. The old building had been demolished and rebuilt and the new building was blocking the mobile signal.

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Can you boost multiple networks at once
This time we want to talk about the technicalities, and legalities, of boosting multiple mobile phone networks. Let's start with a bit about network providers. There are four major UK network providers: Vodafone, Three, O2 and EE. There are many more which piggyback on their signals (around 30 piggybacking companies across the UK). Officially, they're known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) ... nice and easy to remember! The good news here is that you can boost these MVNO signals by simply boosting the parent network ... so for Sky Mobile you'd boost O2 and for BT Mobile it would be EE. Here's a full list of all UK MVNOs if you want to see who the parent network is for your specific MVNO. Hold on, what was the question? Oh yes, can I boost all networks or just one network?

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office mobile signal booster
Sykes & Son Limited deliver a range of building, engineering and maintenance solutions to iconic clients and sites throughout London and the South East. They came to us during the construction of their new head office building to enquire about a signal solution. The brief; to boost the signal for their company phones.
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