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.
Mamo still owns the station, which now operates as a Shell. Over the next quarter centuryâand in a manner more deliberate than accidentalâhe has built a network of stations around the region, acquiring them slowly, at first, and then, starting in 2009, at high speed.