Boating NZ

Boost your phone

Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and with services like Google Maps making printed roadmaps pretty much redundant, data is essential. Similarly, when you’re out on the water, navigation aids, real-time weather updates, sea surface temperature maps and marine apps all rely on cellular data. So you need to boost the signal.

Installing a mobile booster antenna on your boat is a simple, relatively cheap solution, but there’s an inherent problem: no modern smartphone allows you to plug an external antenna directly into it. This means you also have to add a mobile router device to create a WiFi hotspot, running off its own network SIM card. You

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