How to improve mobile signal strength?

[Spacehonker]

My perfect solution would be for whoever is in charge of telecommunications in France to provide a service for all of its citizens at an affordable price. The cost of satellite phones is for the well off, not people on a basic state pension. A second best solution would be for banks, credit cards, Paypal etc. to accept some other means of sending a security code instead of insisting on using a mobile phone network that covers less than 90% of the population.

 

[matt100]

My perfect solution would be for whoever is in charge of telecommunications in France to provide a service for all of its citizens at an affordable price. The cost of satellite phones is for the well off, not people on a basic state pension. A second best solution would be for banks, credit cards, Paypal etc. to accept some other means of sending a security code instead of insisting on using a mobile phone network that covers less than 90% of the population.

I still don't get the intersection of power cut and urgent internet banking tbh.. That's whats messing with my head.

To my mind this is either an occasional and temporary issue that means you can't conduct your normal day to day stuff (but how could you and more to the point why would you if you had a total power cut, that's pretty disastrous for most people) or it's a safety issue because you're essentially out of contact at points where you really need it in which case you need to either move or figure out a solution.

Incidentally my suggestion wasn't so much satellite phones as you're right they're mad money, it was satellite internet that then gave you access to wifi calling/texts which you can get for about the same price as a fibre connection.

All that said I assume there is a solution for security codes... surely there's a solution for people who choose not to have a mobile phone at all? Maybe one of the now largely defunct card reader/code generator things?