Is it harmful to boost mobile phone signals?

Perfectly safe to use as long as you shield it appropriately (such as placing it in a lead lined container) to prevent any radio waves affecting you.
 
I've been told by a trusted sauce that wrapping 35-40% of your penis in a combination of baking paper and tin foil saves you from the said radiation
 
I would first pop open the enclosure to make sure it was not just expensive snake oil.

China are awesome for making things that are just empty boxes. Like a HDMI to VGA cable I bought the other day.
 
Pinter75 said:
I would first pop open the enclosure to make sure it was not just expensive snake oil.

China are awesome for making things that are just empty boxes. Like a HDMI to VGA cable I bought the other day.
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To be honest, the outdoor antenna part of the system (big white box) is really surprisingly light!!

I'm just going to send it back to the seller, he's agreed to take it back. I will lose a bit of money in postage but I don't mind
 
azibux1 said:
I have no proof that signals are harmful...
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I worked in the mobile phone industry for 20 years, you're fine with mobile phones, can't remember how many watts but it's sod all, nothing to worry about.

Police radios on the other-hand .... now they kick out some power!

But yes, RF can be dangerous, brother worked at a satellite ground station, before it was understood the staff would quite happily work on silly watt equipment without shielding, the cancer rate on the older staff was way above the UK average.
 
Thanks Brenn :)

Myshra that's the odd thing, I did sometimes use an O2 app called TuGo that routes calls over WiFi... But when not using it, the issue seemed intermittent... Bit odd, even with full bars of signal sometimes something interferes with the signal

Think purchasing this booster was a mistake anyway as I have bars of signal, just sometimes call quality isn't great. Very odd. It isn't my phone either as I've tried others

I can hear the caller perfectly, but they say my voice is breaking up and it is very hard to hear me
 
AlecR said:
This device is illegal.
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I asked the seller about this. Their website states:

Essentially, this boils down to the issue of licensing. Ofcom states that a licence is required to operate a product broadcasting in a mobile carriers radio spectrum. The reason for this is to avoid interference in the providers networks. However, as can be seen in Sec 1.2 in the link below, taken directly from the Ofcom website, our products are exempt from such licensing requirements, as they do not cause any such network interference.

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/devices/summary

Indeed, many of our customers are referred to us directly from the network providers themselves, reflecting our trusted position within this industry for providing both high service and product quality.
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And that Sec 1.2 is:

1.2 Under section 8(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (the "WT Act"), it is an offence to establish, install or use equipment to transmit without holding a licence granted by us, unless the use of such equipment is exempted. Under the section 8(4) of the WT Act, we are required to exempt the establishment, installation and use of a station or apparatus if it is not likely to involve undue interference.
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I would suspect it is, but I do know of several companies that use them.

We had some muppet jamming GPS gown the south coast a few years back, blacked out Portsmouth and 10 or 15 mile radius. They caught him in the end, not sure what the sentence was.
 
Just because the equipment is technically legal, doesn't mean using it is. They can't control every single instance to be sure it doesn't cause interference.

I know it's irrelevant since it's been sent back but I wouldn't consider using something like that. Not because of any health issues (because I don't believe they exist) but because of the legalities.

I've been saturated with high levels of RF from HF up into microwaves for well over thirty years. It's really not an issue.

Jamming GPS as mentioned in the post above this one is taken very seriously and I'd be very interested to see how that ended up. There were some news items about the jamming of GPS in the press last year - Many systems rely on GPS and to jam it could be a serious risk.
 
I wouldn't risk it. It will be harmful, but not the microwaving way... more of the lawful way :p.

This is Ofcom's full statement on boosters: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio...and/policy-and-background/repeaters-boosters/

And this is the statement is on sellers "claiming" their product is legal: http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/phone/mobile-phones/coverage/mobile-repeaters/

The unlicensed use of mobile repeaters is illegal in the UK. People using them can face a fine of up to £5,000 and up to a year in prison.
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