Car phone signal booster help

[Small Car]

It seems the last mildly related thread was 2013 but I might be wrong.

I do a big commute out to the sticks and spend the whole journey on calls. It gets pretty crap towards the end. What can I do? I have googled a load and it appears boosters range from £100 to 400 and I am confused. Money not the issue - good signal is!

Has anyone got this? Help. Just voice, not data. I am on EE.

Thanks.

[ging84]

You can't boost what isn't there, so chances are nothing is going to achieve the results you are hoping for.

I suspect you have been looking at signal boosting repeaters, these are generally illegal to use and all they are doing is picking up signal outside and rebroadcasting it inside. This is great for buildings, particularly metal clad ones where you can mount an antenna 30ft+ in the air , but for a car there is going to be limited benefit. If you were able to find a company offering a legal solution, i suspect money would very much become the issue.

[Small Car]

Interesting! Thanks. Annoying you can get 4G in deepest darkest Wales and patchy signal on some main A roads!

[TooMany2cvs]

ging84 said:

You can't boost what isn't there, so chances are nothing is going to achieve the results you are hoping for.

This.

I suspect you're thinking of domestic signal boosters - which work by routing your mobile signal over your landline broadband. No landline broadband in a car...

[Evanivitch]

Some networks allow voice calls over wifi (O2 being one). Either change network or invest in a dual-sim phone.

I'm not sure how, but you'd need a mobile hotspot that will take an external antenna.

Like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hotspot-External-magnetic...

[tivver500]

Drive around the West Country and see how many areas have no signal at all!!
Vodafone in my area is all of 2G - and they keep trying to sell me a 5G contract......
Might be better if they all improved signal strength down here - but we're not London though!!

[TooMany2cvs]

tivver500 said:

Drive around the West Country and see how many areas have no signal at all!!
Vodafone in my area is all of 2G - and they keep trying to sell me a 5G contract......
Might be better if they all improved signal strength down here - but we're not London though!!

Can't even send or receive texts here - and Voda are the network with the best signal...