Boost your bars with Vodafone Sure Signal

Staying connected to family, friends and colleagues can be difficult if you live or work in a mobile phone ‘weakspot’ – places where there is patchy, limited or no mobile phone coverage. But now standing on a chair, or moving from room to room in the hope of getting better mobile phone reception could become a thing of the past with the launch of Vodafone Sure Signal.

Vodafone Sure Signal is a New Zealand-first device – a small box that is easy to install and uses your Vodafone fixed broadband line to deliver strong and reliable 3G coverage in the home or office so people can make calls, TXTs, check emails or browse the web on their mobile phone. All that is needed is a fixed broadband connection with Vodafone that is capable of download speeds of at least 1MB per second, and a 3G mobile phone.

“Mobile signal strength isn’t always a case of how near you are to a cell site. It can be affected by New Zealand’s unique topography, or the location or type of building you’re in - living in a basement, high apartment building or being close to hills and valleys can result in a weaker signal, even in cities with lots of cell sites,” says Tony Baird, Vodafone New Zealand General Manager – Network and Services.

“These mobile ‘weakspots’ aren’t new – every network in the world has them – but we know they can be a great source of frustration for customers, so we are delighted to be the first in New Zealand to offer a new solution that will provide them with strong, reliable 3G indoor coverage where they previously had none.”

Greg Martin runs his business from his coastal Birkenhead home and has been trialling Sure Signal for the last month. He says it has turned his life around.

“No matter what network I tried I could almost guarantee that a mobile phone call would not go the distance. I’d either completely lose the connection or the signal would cut in and out. It got to the stage where I didn’t want to use my mobile, and when I received a call I’d immediately ask the caller to phone me back on my landline – it became increasingly frustrating and unproductive.

“Vodafone Sure Signal has completely changed my life. I can now take calls confidently and use my mobile phone at home more than my landline,” says Mr Martin.

Vodafone Sure Signal is just one of the initiatives Vodafone will be rolling out over the coming year as part of its commitment to invest in New Zealand’s smartest mobile network.

Sure Signal comes in two versions:

Vodafone Sure Signal

• Boosts the 3G signal throughout your home or office by up to 20 metres.
• Allows up to four people to be on their mobiles at the same time.
• Easy to install - connects to your Vodafone fixed broadband line.
• Normal RRP $349 (incl. GST).
• Vodafone has a special introductory offer of $99 (incl GST) for the consumer device (normally $349 inc GST). This offer is available until 15 March 2011.

Vodafone Sure Signal Enterprise

• Boosts the 3G signal throughout your home or office by up to 40 metres.
• Allows up to 8 people to be on their mobiles at the same time.
• Easy to install - connects to your Vodafone fixed broadband line.
• RRP $899 (excl. GST).

Broadband data used by Sure Signal will be zero rated which means it will not impact the customer’s fixed broadband data allowance.

Available from Vodafone.co.nz, your local Vodafone retail store or reseller.

For more information please visit www.vodafone.co.nz/suresignal.