Novatel – making digital communications faster, easier and more reliable

Many modern homes and commercial buildings are built in a way to ensure that they are extra insulated, and reinforced, and this creates huge problems when it comes to mobile phone signals. Dead zones, shaky coverage and unreliability are some of the major problems that are now commonly encountered. This problem also extends to buildings that are constructed with metal or cladding, have thick stone walls or concrete.

In all of the above situations the signal that is broadcast from your local cell tower simply will not permeate inside to reach your mobile phone, costing you time and money with missed or dropped calls and frustrating data connection drop offs.
Advanced Mobile Phone Repeater technology from Stella Doradus provides crystal clear voice calls and reliable mobile data solutions to small or large areas where phone signals are currently either weak or non-existent indoors. Licensed Repeater Systems solves these problems by capturing even the weakest of signals outdoor, adding amplification and redistributing the signal to whatever area you desire, instantly making your communication problems a thing of the past.

In addition to perfect call quality, why not solve your internet problems today? Stop waiting for your fibre connection, you don’t need it!

No business can thrive without a proper internet connection. Simple productivity tasks like getting into a Zoom call and being able to listen and see everyone on such call, downloading the latest product catalogue of your supplier, accessing your cloud-based File, ERP or CRM systems, or simply loading a webpage, should not be something you worry about. This is not, however, what’s happening in so many regions in our country, and we keep daydreaming of a fibre service that is offered to our door.

Do we really need to keep on waiting? Do we really need a fibre connection to run our business?

The evolution and proliferation of LTE/5G has made it that, today, in Ireland, there’s a 99% coverage of 4G networks – considering the three main providers. This coverage is, however, street coverage. Often, we’re on a Whatsapp call while driving or walking on the street, and the minute we entre a building, the quality of our call just drops – or the call itself drops. Like standard calls as previously discussed this is because the LTE/5G signal has a hard time going through the structure of our buildings (bricks, concrete, iron, and wood, amongst others). We as business owners/decision makers or private users are led to disregard LTE/5G as a solution to our office/home internet needs.
But think again: when was the last time your mobile phone didn’t have LTE/5G connection when you were on the street? Is it really that unreliable or are we missing something?

LTE/5G has numerous benefits when compared to all existing internet access options. The first one, the most important one and the one we tend to overlook the most: it’s there! It is that simple. Outside your building, you can pick up a good quality LTE/5G signal. Compared to any other internet connection alternative, LTE/5G has by far the easiest and quickest deployment of all: no wiring and no waiting. It has a way bigger
coverage than any wired access alternative and, again, it’s there. You just need to pick it up with the right equipment and, most probably, you will get better speeds than with your phone.

Secondly, it’s super reliable. Again, when was the last time your cell phone’s outdoor LTE connection was “down”? The redundant nature of LTE/5G, with multiple towers, makes it more reliable than wired broadband which is prone to physical errors, or satellite which can be affected by weather. Most locations are served by multiple cell towers, which means if a cell tower goes down, networks will remain up and running.

Thirdly, speeds offered are more than sufficient to tackle all your needs. Do you really need those 500Mbps you saw on that TV ad? For 99% of us, the answer is no. But even if you do, LTE/5G will get you there. LTE offers, today, typical download speeds between 20 and 200Mbps – probably the speeds you need. However, 5G is blowing those numbers away, with speeds ranging from 200 to 700Mbps – yes, in Ireland (329Mbps download speed, 16km away from the cell tower)!

Finally, “But National Broadband Ireland have promised the fibre will be here in the next six months, what do I do then?”. Solve your problem today to save time and money.
LTE/5G is the key to unlock fast internet access today. The only thing that is needed is to do it right. With the right router, the right outdoor Poynting antenna, and the right Teltonika cellular router. It’s this simple. Why wait? Contact Novatel today and let us guide you to a solution that will keep you talking and keep you connected.

Niamh Cullen O’Reilly, CEO Novatel

Novatel Communications Approved Distributor for ComReg approved Stella Doradus, Poynting & Teltonika Cellular Equipment. www.novatel.ie

This Business Support article featured in the November/December 2022 issue of The Hardware Journal.