Antenna

5 Reasons to work with local businesses rather than Franchises

Franchises have been in the spotlight for the past few month with so many franchisees suffering from financial and mental breakdowns after seeing their dream to own a business turn into a nightmare. Free work, underpayment, restraint on what they can do are just a few of the unfair arrangement franchisers forces franchisees to sign. According to The Gardian, “parliamentary inquiry into franchising code of conduct has not receive a single submission from a franchisee” because they fear it would breach their contract. Here are 5 reasons why you should work with a local business rather than a franchise.

1. Help your local economy

Making the choice of local business for the services you need is beneficial not only to the economy of your city but also to employment, because companies require local labor to produce.

2. Cut the middle men and Save Money

No need to pay for the corporate expenses and TV commercials franchises are running, find a local installer and just pay for the service.

3. Better flexibility

A local business owner only works for a small number of clients for whom he invests 100% of his time and do as a please because he doesn’t need to answer to a set of rules decided by a Franchiser.

4. Better Quality and service

Locals suppliers take pride in the service they provide for their community and will get the best possible products for your bucks. Meanwhile, franchisee won’t even be able to decide the antennas and TV brackets they want to use.

5. Better reliability

If you have a look at franchises reviews it’s really mixed. The service is sometimes referred as excellent and sometimes as dodgy. That’s because they have both good and bad franchisees. At Wired Store we hire and form all our technicians yourself and that’s why you will only get the best technicians for the jobs you need.

Can the 4G LTE signal cause interference to your TV reception?

Some of you might be wondering why your TV reception started acting strange all of a sudden without you changing anything on your end.

Can it be because of the launch of the 4G LTE in your area?

4GLTE is the fourth generation of mobile phone standard. Optus and Telstra launched it in 2015 in Australia but they are still expending their networks today. In Urban area, the 4G uses high frequencies very far from the TV band and is not likely to cause any interference. In rural area, however, they use frequencies around 700 MHz. This frequency was previously used by the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network to broadcast television and a lot of people still got Antennas tuned to pick up this frequency. If you are not very far from a mobile phone transmission tower it might be the cause to your poor TV reception.

There is 2 solutions to this problem.

Our team works closely with the best Australian antenna suppliers and we can replace your antenna with a new 4G ready antenna that will eliminate any interference you might have.

If you want to keep your old Antenna it’s also possible to install a 4G-LTE filter on it. It’s a low pass filter that would filter out all the high frequencies received by the mobile phone transmission tower.