A cell phone signal booster works by detecting the cell signal outside a building, bringing it inside and amplifying it, and then rebroadcasting the amplified signal to the interior space so your phone or can use it. Each has advantages and disadvantages.
The company already owns 1,215 branded retail stations, 425 of which are company-operated under the Tesoro, Shell and USA Gasoline names, and is in the process of taking over the leases of about 250 Arco-and Thrifty-branded stations owned by franchisees. Those stations are being rebranded USA Gas.
(Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ, www.telcordia.com) A telecommunications software, engineering and consulting organization. Telcordia was originally founded as Bellcore in 1984 by the regional Bell telephone companies (RBOCs) after they were split apart from AT&T due to court order (see Divestiture). In late 1997, Bellcore was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), which was founded by Dr. J.R. Beyster in 1969.