CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:25 pm Mobile Signal Booster Devices Banned
AKP Phnom Penh, July 26, 2022 --

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has banned signal boosters and/or repeaters, explaining that the use of these devices have caused signal interferences of mobile services.

I'm sure if there wasn't a need for a booster they wouldn't be purchased.

Instead of fixing the problem, easier to ban a temporary solution, great thinking

cautious colin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:51 am

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:25 pm Mobile Signal Booster Devices Banned
AKP Phnom Penh, July 26, 2022 --

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has banned signal boosters and/or repeaters, explaining that the use of these devices have caused signal interferences of mobile services.

I'm sure if there wasn't a need for a booster they wouldn't be purchased.

Instead of fixing the problem, easier to ban a temporary solution, great thinking

Boosters themselves is not the entire issue. The notice makes mention of unapproved devices. The Chinese are very good at meeting required standards such as FCC, and poor quality kit entering the US or UK would be seized at import. If you go to any market in Cambodia, you’ll find shite Chinese shite that wouldn’t pass anywhere more regulated.

Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:06 am

cautious colin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:51 am

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:25 pm Mobile Signal Booster Devices Banned
AKP Phnom Penh, July 26, 2022 --

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has banned signal boosters and/or repeaters, explaining that the use of these devices have caused signal interferences of mobile services.

I'm sure if there wasn't a need for a booster they wouldn't be purchased.

Instead of fixing the problem, easier to ban a temporary solution, great thinking

Boosters themselves is not the entire issue. The notice makes mention of unapproved devices. The Chinese are very good at meeting required standards such as FCC, and poor quality kit entering the US or UK would be seized at import. If you go to any market in Cambodia, you’ll find shite Chinese shite that wouldn’t pass anywhere more regulated.

But do they actually recognise any as being legit?

From KT

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) is urging Cambodians using signal boosters and repeaters in their homes to dismantle the units and to stop using it as it disrupt mobile network services

People use signal boosters because they don't have a choice.

Fix the problem, and then the boosters become obsolete

cautious colin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:12 am

Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:06 am

cautious colin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:51 am

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:25 pm Mobile Signal Booster Devices Banned
AKP Phnom Penh, July 26, 2022 --

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has banned signal boosters and/or repeaters, explaining that the use of these devices have caused signal interferences of mobile services.

I'm sure if there wasn't a need for a booster they wouldn't be purchased.

Instead of fixing the problem, easier to ban a temporary solution, great thinking

Boosters themselves is not the entire issue. The notice makes mention of unapproved devices. The Chinese are very good at meeting required standards such as FCC, and poor quality kit entering the US or UK would be seized at import. If you go to any market in Cambodia, you’ll find shite Chinese shite that wouldn’t pass anywhere more regulated.

But do they actually recognise any as being legit?

From KT

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) is urging Cambodians using signal boosters and repeaters in their homes to dismantle the units and to stop using it as it disrupt mobile network services

People use signal boosters because they don't have a choice.

Fix the problem, and then the boosters become obsolete

I’ve no idea, to be honest.

In the UK, for instance, cell boosters were heavily regulated, and I think prohibited for general consumer use, about a decade ago. People largely wanted the same thing- better reception in an increasingly smart phone environment, for one.

But in the UK, there were standards in place.
In Cambodia, the cell companies seem largely self regulated, there’s no contagious network between provides, and I imagine government oversight is in its infancy. They’re playing catch up, just when the system is probably at its most vulnerable.
But! If everyone gets a booster, or little comm7nes club together and get two or three, and then crash the local network, what have they achieved?

By all means, fix the problem.
Referring back to the UK, there have been protests and court actions to deny further development of networks. Now where is perfect. Black spots- areas of nil coverage exist. The later part of the notice deals with just that- operators to improve their networks.

everything appears to point at cel phone boosters but it now does indeed appear to include wifi meaning home internet I installed such a new device last weekend modum wouldnt reach the bedroom where I watch Netflix however one room further on the bathroom it still wont reach so its difficult to imagine how on earth it could effect anyone else let alone the military I walk out the from door and it cannot be located .

Wi-Fi is such a poor term, in my opinion. But it’s lodged in the collective understanding, now. Just like HiFi. I wonder how many people under 30 actually know what Hi-Fi means.

Wi-fi at home, and anywhere else has fairly low signal strength, and as a result, range. It is, however, a Wireless technology.
Cell phones are also a wireless technology. But a completely different one.

More recently, with the advent of 5G, there has been some very serious cause for concern over it’s interference in communication, especially with a particular type of aircraft altimeter.
Different countries have adopted quite varied methods of handling it.

Some years ago, the UK pushed all digital TV, allowing the freeing up of commercially lucrative frequency bands. The ether is congested.

Good equipment, manufactured to strict guidelines, will no doubt meet the requirements, at a cost. Crappy, cheap, low standard equipment is likely going to have much wider, less predictable performance, and as a result, probably interference,

This latest communication suggests to me that the ministry involved is not really clear on the topic.
Unless the mobile telephone/cellular network is especially badly specified, I fail to see how home wi-fi repeaters are able to interfere with the much higher output, much better positioned cellular antennae.

As for home wi-fi, this in itself frequently has issues where two nearby routers will have the same strength, and suffer interference. Often, the solution is to actually set it up correctly, and not leave it with the default settings. Ie. don’t put two routers only 20meters apart, broadcasting on the same channel. Akin to the remote control aircraft world crashing each other’s aircraft, etc.