A small mobile phone base station connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used to improve mobile phone reception within a particular area.
to shift the burden on its network to the Internet, the company is selling microcells to its cellphone customers, to install in their homes
Example sentencesExamples
This comes on top of in flight cellphone service, in which essentially a microcell is established inside the aircraft, and where your phone "roams" from your home network to that inside the plane.
The microcell has allowed me to cut my land line down to local only.
But microwave backhaul is now becoming essential for linking microcells, which cover just a block or two.
I have the microcell and it is great.
Recall, I live in an area with no usable signal, hence the microcell.
Definition of microcell in US English:
microcell
nounˈmīkrōˌsel
A small mobile phone base station connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used to improve mobile phone reception within a particular area.
to shift the burden on its network to the Internet, the company is selling microcells to its cellphone customers, to install in their homes
Example sentencesExamples
I have the microcell and it is great.
This comes on top of in flight cellphone service, in which essentially a microcell is established inside the aircraft, and where your phone "roams" from your home network to that inside the plane.
But microwave backhaul is now becoming essential for linking microcells, which cover just a block or two.
Recall, I live in an area with no usable signal, hence the microcell.
The microcell has allowed me to cut my land line down to local only.