RESOURCES
Everything on this site,
arranged by what you need.
An index of the guidance published here, grouped by the task in front of you rather than by the page it happens to live on.
Everything listed here is already published on this site and opens in the same window. There is nothing to request, register for or download beyond one plain-text worksheet meant to be used offline. The material is educational: it explains how indoor cellular coverage is diagnosed, compared and verified, and it is not a recommendation for any particular building.
Understand the problem
Start here if reception is poor somewhere in the building and the cause is still unclear. These pages explain what affects indoor signal and how to describe what is happening without guessing at a remedy.
- Diagnostic patterns: what the symptom suggests
Whether one device, several devices or one area is affected narrows the possibilities before anyone measures anything.
- Building fabric and why signal stops at the wall
Construction materials, glazing and layout explain most of the gap between outdoor and indoor reception.
- Coverage by building type
Offices, warehouses, industrial facilities, retail, hospitality and multi-tenant buildings each present the problem differently.
- Glossary of in-building coverage terms
Definitions for the vocabulary used in proposals and equipment documentation, from donor signal to signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio.
- Common questions about the symptoms
Short answers to the questions readers usually arrive with.
- The full coverage FAQ
Every published question in one place, grouped by what the reader is deciding.
Compare the options
Use this group once the problem is described and the question becomes what kinds of system exist, what each one depends on, and which distinction actually matters.
- Signal boosting: what an off-air system relays
What a bi-directional amplifier does, and what it cannot do without a usable donor signal.
- Distributed antenna systems
How distributing antennas through a building differs from strengthening a single source.
- Choosing between a booster and a distributed system
The two decisions are about the signal source and the distribution network, and they are not mutually exclusive.
- Carrier and frequency band compatibility
Equipment only passes the bands it supports, so the carriers that matter have to be identified first.
- Questions about comparing approaches
Including where Wi-Fi calling helps and where it does not.
Prepare for a conversation
Gather observations before asking anyone to assess the building. Clear, comparable notes shorten the discussion and make any later measurement meaningful.
- Assessment preparation checklist
What is useful to have ready, and what should stay inside your organization.
- Coverage observation worksheet, plain text
An offline planning aid for recording location, carrier, device, task and result in a repeatable format. Nothing is uploaded or stored by this website.
- What a first discussion covers
The questions that shape whether an assessment is worth arranging at all.
- Questions about planning a possible project
Timelines, disruption, building access and who needs to be involved.
- Start a conversation by email
The form prepares a message in your own email application; you review it before sending.
Review a proposal
Material for the point where a document is in front of you and you need to judge whether it is complete, testable and honest about what it depends on.
- Proposal-review checklist
Vendor-neutral questions to ask of any proposal, including how success would be defined.
- Acceptance planning and the observation worksheet
Agreeing the boundary, the comparison and the unresolved items before equipment is chosen.
- Testing and handover expectations
What gets checked at completion and what the resulting record is for.
- Permissions, requirements and limitations
Why approvals, building access and applicable requirements shape what is possible.
- Commissioning, walk test and benchmark survey defined
The terms a proposal is likely to use when it describes how results will be verified.
About this site
How this website works, what the material is for, and where its limits are stated.
- About Aurora Netcom
The focus of the work and how the published material is meant to be used.
- Terms of use
The scope of this website's content, its limits, and how links and enquiries are handled.
- Privacy and enquiry information
What happens to anything you type into the enquiry form, which is not submitted to this website.
START WITH YOUR BUILDING
Let’s understand
your coverage challenge.
A useful conversation starts with where reception falls short — and who it affects.