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Millennial Real Estate Buyers Put Strong And Consistent Cell Phone Signals On High Priority

Written by Posted On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:38
Millennial Real Estate Buyers Put Strong And Consistent Cell Phone Signals On High Priority

 Millennials, who want value for their hard-earned money, look for one thing before signing a property lease or purchase contract: The office space they are renting or home they are buying must be in a location that is accessible to a regular stream of strong cell phone signals. It does not matter if they have smartphone subscriptions with a data plan or will just rely on the Wi-Fi router they just set up on the premises. Whatever platform they use, they must be able to use their desktops and cell devices whenever they want to, without any disruption in the exchange of voice, data, and video.

Real-estate broker Sabine Schoenberg lays out the landscape in her column in Next Avenue: “Millennials demand the ability to use their smartphones and tablets everywhere. So make sure cell signals are strong and, if they’re not, install Wi-Fi boosters. A faltering cell signal can be a deal breaker for millennials.”

Schoenberg gives the advice to aging baby boomers who are selling or renting their old homes or vacation houses to the younger generation. Locations can and do determine the quality of the cell phone signal. Areas far from a cell tower will have plenty of “dead spots”or small pockets that receive poor transmission or, sometimes, none at all. This means that a cozy bungalow in a family-friendly suburb may initially attract millennial home buyers, but its far distance from a telecom cell structure may give them second thoughts in purchasing it.

Locations, however, solve only part of the problem, especially if the building that is being leased or bought has been constructed with tough materials like steel and concrete. The structure may house only a couple of dozen people at the moment; however, give it a few years and the growing population, coupled with the solid exteriors, can become an obstacle to receiving quality cell phone signal.

IBN Live’s tech columnist Ankita Tuteja explains the problems that many cell device users grapple with today. Sha says, “Many of us are unable to properly connect to the network in daily environments such as office or home. It so happens because of materials like reinforced concrete and wire mesh used in the construction of the building. Cell phone signals, therefore, cannot easily pass through the walls of such buildings - leading to weak signals or connection loss.”

An internet-savvy generation will not take chances, especially in shelling out money for a piece of property that they will live in for a long time. To ensure they always receive their fair share of cell signals, property-seeking millennials add a third element to their shopping guide, aside from building location, structure design, and potential population growth: the network extender.

The network extender, which is from leading tech company 5BARz International, is a dark horse in the race to discover methods of constant connectivity. It is also a disruptive force that has broken the cell device user’s dependence on a nearby cell structure or even the capabilities of his Wi-Fi router. The portable plug-and-play device can boost cell signals within a 4-meter radius to maximum levels. Tuteja might as well have been describing it when he offers a solution to the perpetual problem of wavering phone signals; he says that users need “a booster that can amplify cell phone signal and re-transmit it to areas that receive little or no signal.”

The device has also received overwhelming positive response since its launch in the United States and Latin America a couple of years ago. It first grabbed the attention of tourists and travelling businessmen who were always wrestling with connectivity issues; often times, the lack of adequate infrastructure in mountainous resorts and non-wired hotels alike cut them off from their regular daily email, teleconference, and social media chats with their colleagues and loved ones back home.

Now, the network extender is catching the attention of the real-estate consumer market, who finds connectivity non-negotiable.

The California-based 5BARz International has also made a huge headway in India, by providing constant internet and voice access to a wired workforce who has to contend with buildings that can block off cell signal transmission. In an interview with The Hindu Times, Samartha Nagabhushanam, chief executive of 5BARz India, describes the challenges that the network extender faced and ultimately overcame: “… we use lot of steel and concrete in our buildings compared to other countries which use wood and prefabricated structures … He adds that 90 percent of mobile usage in India happens in these steel-and-concrete structures which cell transmission finds hard to penetrate.

The network extender is able to circumvent this problem because it contains within its own modem-sized shell an internal as well as an external antenna which. Once combined, these two antennae can tap into and receive the cell signals transmitted by the nearby cell structure and channel them into the user’s cell phone, boosting their power levels. Nagabhushanam adds that a patented algorithm in the network extender also prevents any disruption from breaking out.

5BARz India’s CEO happily reports that the number of call drops in these concrete buildings has dropped, and managers and staffers who spend a lot of their working hours in them are enjoying strong cell signals, regardless of the number of people that occupy the space in any given day.

 “This solution can be adapted in any part of the world,” Nagabhushanam enthuses. Indeed, 5BARz International’s success in India is being experienced slowly but steadily by US Millennials determined to have constant connectivity in any new structure that they just bought or leased.

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