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Use of cell phones, laptops must change

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:50:36 GMT

One day while I was in my car heading out to dinner, I saw a large truck pass me by, on the rear of the truck was a yellow bumper sticker saying how am I driving, call 1-800 “yadda yadda yadda”, several minutes later I was cutoff buy this non-driving so and so for lack of a better word, causing me to suddenly apply my brakes. That’s when I thought there should be on the rear of every automobile a bumper sticker that says, “how am I driving”; call me in my car, with their phone number in big bold letters. I’ ll bet that would change some driving habits.

I am on the subject of cell phones because there is a new evil in the world, ok not an evil, but a new breed of people, I like to call them cell phone junkies, remember several years back, when there was no such thing as a cell phone? If you had to make a call you ran to the back of the restaurant and put 20 cents in the public phone, and talked for about five minutes. Not anymore, now everyone has a cell phone, everywhere you go, everyplace you look; someone is on the phone; as soon as someone invents a waterproof phone the skies the limit. You wonder how we ever survived without them. Now we can be reached anywhere, anytime, even at the dinner table.

Fay Gougakis / Guest Column

With today's fast-paced lifestyles we have given up a lot of our humanity. At 45, I don't feel comfortable in the world anymore. I miss the days when I could find a quiet place at the coffee shop and read the paper or talk to someone without having to compete with a cell phone or laptop. It seems inhuman to see people walking around with gadgets in their ears talking to themselves. Cafés now sprout laptops with heads buried in them. These new gadgets have created the “Me” generation, with selfish habits that intrude into someone else's space. There is no thought of safety, etiquette or how these habits are changing our lives.

We are creating a world in which humans are alienating themselves from true personal relationships and from their physical surroundings. We are disconnected from the damage we are doing to our planet as we are from the people around us.***

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Analog vs. digital cellular phones

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:41:31 GMT

Cellular phones are an amazing modern convenience, but it can be confusing for consumers to distinguish between the various options available. There are two main types of cellular phones: analog and digital. Each type operates slightly differently and has its own unique advantages and disadvantages.

The first cellular phones were analog phones. Analog phones are basically an extremely sophisticated radio and telephone combination. The main advantage of analog cellular phones is that they cost less than the newer digital phones. Analog phones are also a better choice for travelers, since 95 percent of the county is equipped for their use. The drawbacks of choosing an analog phone are the reduced sound quality and the slightly higher per minute rate.

Digital cellular phones use the same basic technology as an analog phone. The difference is that digital phones use binary code and compression to fit more calls into a given bandwidth. Digital cellular phones offer longer battery life, better signals, and cheaper calling rates. The main disadvantage of digital cellular phones is that many parts of the country aren�t equipped with the proper antennae to receive digital signals. This makes digital cellular phones inappropriate for frequent travelers or individuals who live in rural areas.

Sprint often uses the term PCS in their promotional materials. PCS stands for Personal Communications Service and is a wireless communications service very similar to cellular phone services. Many people use the term PCS as a synonym for a digital cellular phone, but a true PCS phone offers additional services such as caller ID, paging, and e-mail as part of its regular phone service.

Newer cellular phone models may offer a dual mode feature. This option allows you to automatically switch between analog and digital modes depending upon what antennae are in your range. Dual mode phones combine the advantages of both analog and digital cellular phones.

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Timothy Gorman is a successful webmaster and publisher of Cellular-Phone-Solutions.com. He provides cellular phone plans, service and free cellular phones on his website that you can research in your pajamas.

Cell Phones - The New Media

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:20:14 GMT

Every day, there are more new uses for the classic cell phones. These days, people have come to the conclusion that they read their emails, pay their fees or play games with their friends and that they can do all these things through their cell phones. The basic function of a phone, even if it is a cell phone is that of a voice communication device. It is being quickly replaced with new options that attract people. We can use the cell phones as credit cards to buy products or services, read articles on the Internet or even take wonderful pictures.

The new improvements in the field and the constant developing of the technologies give cell phones the chance to offer highly attractive opportunities for their users. The use of cell phones globally brought them to the top position on the list of communication devices. The word �communication� has a new meaning. Nowadays technology allows cell phone users to explore their new applications at increased capacities.

The success of the Internet access using cell phones has reasons that include the main disadvantages of their competition, the personal computers. Cell phones don�t need a great deal of space, like ordinary desktop or even laptop computers do, they usually are cheaper than fixed telephones and they don�t require any landline infrastructures. These reasons made cell phones successful in almost all the countries around the world. Cell phones have become modern communication interfaces. They have a huge potential in changing our relationship to space. The newest cell phones are definitely cutting edge communication tools and they capable to create new social environments and to give a new meaning to today�s media concepts.

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Cellular Phone Buyers Information

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:30:40 GMT

The Hottest thing with cell phones is the ability to take pictures with your cell phone. You can take pictures with your cell phone and e-mail them to family and friends with the touch of a few buttons.

There are no tricks involved and it is a fairly simple process. Just aim and shoot to capture all the fun right on your cell phone. Press a few buttons and bam it’s right on your friends phone or sent to their email.

Factory-to-dealer sales of camera phones grew from 1.2 million in 2001 to 6.3 million last year with estimates that last year’s sales will double this year and triple in 2005. Some say that this is going be the next standard on cell phones to come but video cell phones are being marketed to Japan as we speak.

If you are in the market for a new cell phone check out camera phones at Cell Phone Buyersguide

I hope I have helped you In choosing the right Cell phone

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Vince Ohare is a freelance writer that has submitted many articles to a broad range of websites

Nokia shuts last German cell phone plant; Balda sells German ops

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:20:14 GMT

E-Weekly
Jan 18th, 2008

By Matt Defosse

Cellular phone production in Western Europe is on its final legs. Two weeks before Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia announced it would shut its operation in Bochum, Germany, cell phone parts’ injection molder and contract manufacturer Balda (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany) sold its German molding and moldmaking operations, both in Oeynhausen, as well as its molding facility in Veszprem, Hungary, to KS Plastic Solutions GmbH. An unknown and newly formed business, German papers report that KS will soon be acquired by foreign investors. Balda maintained its small medical molding business in Germany.

Nokia announced on January 15 it would close its 2300-employee facility in Bochum and transfer much of the work done there to a new Nokia facility in Romania, where it says labor costs are significantly lower. The announcement raised a storm of protest among German officials who claimed the Finnish firm should either reconsider or be forced to repay the subsidies it was given (for related story, look here).

Mobile phone production in Western Europe is almost entirely gone, and Nokia’s Bochum facility is the last such production in Germany. In 2006, BenQ Mobile, the former cell phone business of Siemens, filed for bankruptcy in Germany, with about 3000 losing their jobs, and last summer Motorola shut its manufacturing facilities in Flensburg, Germany. Sony Ericsson maintains a facility in France and Nokia maintains one in Salo, Finland.

Meanwhile, Balda announced January 10 that it had sold its European mobile phone and moldmaking operations on Dec. 31, 2007. The processor reported late last year that the operation was for sale (see initial report). Balda has been active over the last years opening facilities and forming joint ventures in Asia and Brazil, and has seen an increasing part of its business future in molding and assembly of touch screens. Balda Solutions Europa, the mobile phone operations on that continent, includes about 500 employees in Germany and another 150 in Hungary, plus 250 contract employees. Also in 2007, Perlos (Espoo, Finland) closed its last two cell phone molding and assembly facilities in Finland and laid off about 1100 workers. Perlos has since been acquired by Taiwanese optoelectronics supplier Lite-On.-mdefosse@modplas.com

A Champion Foto Festival from Mentari Enterprise

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:58:30 GMT

Journalist Priangan Newspaper, Yogi TN have accept reward from Foto Festival that under one’s belt a Mentari, a enterprise provider in Indonesia. At that moment, Yogi sent a picture or foto feature, that define a mother carry out communication with a child, by use of two tine that to be connected with string yarn. They be in a place in front of the poor house. There are several people that at leisure. A mother and a child setting the wheels in motion communication.
The picture take Yogi have reward $ 1,666 from Mentari Enterprise. Mentari Enterprise is a enterprise that afoot cellular phone broad in Tasikmalaya branch. The Mentari Enterprise branch Tasikmalaya sent a picture’s Yogi to Mentari Enterprise center in Jakarta. From this much foto nomination have sent, a picture’s Yogi turn out to be first champion. In Tasikmalaya town there are several provider Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). In Tasikmalaya, there are Mentari, Telkomsel, Indosat, Flexi, Esia, 3, etc. And variety cellular phone counter, service cellular phone service also.
Reward who accept Yogi buy a camera digital himself.. Since that, he take or shoot picture applying for the camera. Who is Yogi. Yogi is official in Priangan Newspaper who fixed to photographer department. With a camera reward, he is usually take picture trip in town. From Yogi’s product, he always accept many salary or income every month.
Several provider cellular phone in Tasikmalaya town grow like mushroom in rainy season. That provider there are budging GSM and AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System). The early cellular system began appearing at end 1970. At 1982 began growth international standard a call GSM, and at 1993 one network the compatible for whole world growth with fast. This is characterize get started non cable telecommunication for mass market and to growth cellular phone service, who develop always and can easy go today.***

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Man accused of taking copper wire from Travis cell phone tower

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:49:24 GMT

Officials said the December incident cut off cell phone coverage for miles.

By Miguel Liscano
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, January 04, 2008

Authorities have arrested a man who they say stole about 100 yards of copper wire from a cell phone tower in southeastern Travis County last month. The incident shut down cell phone coverage within four to eight miles of the tower for about four hours, officials said.

Police in Groves, north of Port Arthur, arrested Matthew John Horvatich on Thursday, Travis County sheriff’s Detective Sidney Parker said. Horvatich was being sought on a third-degree felony criminal mischief charge related to the Dec. 10 incident in Travis County. Bail was set at $30,000.

The missing copper wire is worth $6,000 to $8,000, Parker said.

Horvatich is accused of causing at least $80,000 in damage to a cell phone tower on Gilbert Road near FM 973, where investigators say he cut through a chain-link fence and removed the wire, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Sheriff’s deputies were called after a T-Mobile technician responding to a power outage at the tower found someone inside the fenced area, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Parker said Horvatich probably used bolt cutters wrapped in electrical tape to cut a 100-kilowatt line that powers the tower, which is used by at least one other provider.

Investigators found bolt cutters in an abandoned van across the street from the tower, Parker said.

"That’s the type of electricity that blows body parts off," Parker said. "But if you knew what you were doing, you could probably do it with some safety."

In the past, thieves have taken copper from construction sites, utility poles or air-conditioning units to sell as scrap metal. Parker said copper sells for about $3.50 a pound.

Parker said he’s heard of other cell phone towers being vandalized in rural Travis County but said most of those incidents were not reported to police.

The Dec. 10 incident is the most serious known locally, he said.

Across the state and nation, there’s been an increase in the theft of copper from cell phone towers, T-Mobile spokeswoman Ann Brooks said.

"Our sites are vandalized frequently," she said.

"Within the last 18 to 24 months, it’s become a real issue."

mliscano@statesman.com; 445-3629

Drivers

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:28:57 GMT

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Drivers On Cell Phones Clog Traffic Joel Cooper, a University of Utah doctoral student in psychology, demonstrates how subjects in a new study talked on a cell phone while operating a driving simulator. The new Utah study found that motorists on cell phones contribute to traffic congestion because they drive slower and are less likely to pass slow-moving vehicles. (Credit: Ivana Vladisavljevic, University of Utah) ScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2008) - Motorists who talk on cell phones drive slower on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less often and take longer to complete their trips, according to a University of Utah study that suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic. "At the end of the day, the average person’s commute is longer because of that person who is on the cell phone right in front of them," says University of Utah psychology Professor Dave Strayer, leader of the research team. "That SOB on the cell phone is slowing you down and making you late." "If you talk on the phone while you’re driving, it’s going to take you longer to get from point A to point B, and it’s going to slow down everybody else on the road," says Joel Cooper, a doctoral student in psychology. Cooper is scheduled to present the study in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 16 during the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting. The board is part of the National Academies, parent organization of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine. Cooper and Strayer conducted the study with Ivana Vladisavljevic, a doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering, and Peter Martin, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the University of Utah Traffic Lab. Martin says that, combined with Strayer’s previous research, the new study shows "cell phones not only make driving dangerous, they cause delay too." Previous Research on Wireless Phones and Driving In recent years, Strayer’s research group has published studies showing that: Hands-free cell phones are no less dangerous while driving than hand-held cell phones because the conversation itself is the major distraction. When young adults talk on cell phones while driving, their reaction times become as slow as reaction times for senior citizens. Drivers talking on cell phones are as impaired as drivers with the 0.08 percent blood alcohol level that defines drunken driving in most states. Highway statistics suggest drivers on cell phones are four times more likely to be in an accident, and Strayer’s earlier research suggests the risk is 5.36 times greater. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association claims 240 million U.S. subscribers in a nation of 303 million people. An insurance company survey estimated 73 percent of wireless users talk while driving. Another survey found that during any given daytime moment, 10 percent of U.S. drivers are using cellular phones. The researchers note that 50 countries have adopted laws banning handheld phones while driving. But they say hands-free phone conversations are distracting, "thus, the majority of current regulation appears to be misguided." How the New Study Was Conducted The earlier studies found that cell phone users follow at greater distances, are slower to hit the brakes and are slower to regain speed after braking. But such research didn’t examine how traffic efficiency is influenced by individual cell phone users. That led to Strayer and Martin discussing the possibility of using computers to simulate numerous individual cell phone users’ driving behavior and thus overall traffic. So their doctoral students -- Cooper and Vladisavljevic -- conducted the new study as a step toward an eventual computer "microsimulation" of numerous drivers and vehicles. The new study used a PatrolSim driving simulator. A person sits in a front seat equipped with gas pedal, brakes, steering and displays from a Ford Crown Victoria patrol car. Realistic traffic scenes are projected on three screens around the driver. The new study involved 36 University of Utah psychology undergraduates. Each student drove through six, 9.2-mile-long freeway scenarios, two each in low, medium and high density traffic, corresponding to freeway speeds of 70 mph to 40 mph. Each 9.2-mile drive included 3.9 miles with two lanes in each direction and 5.3 miles with three lanes each way. Traffic speed and flow mimicked Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City. Each student spoke on a hands-free cell phone during one drive at each level of traffic density, and did not use a cell phone during the other three drives. A volunteer on the other end of the phone was told to maintain a constant exchange of conversation. The drivers were told to obey the 65-mph speed limit, and use turn signals. That let participants decide their own speeds, following distances and lane changes. "We designed the study so that traffic would periodically slow in one lane and the other lane would periodically free up," Cooper says. "It created a situation where progress down the road was clearly impeded by slower moving vehicles, and a driver would benefit by moving to the faster lane, whether it was right or left." The Findings: Talking While Driving Means Plodding Along "Results indicated that, when drivers conversed on a cell phone, they made fewer lane changes, had a lower overall mean speed and a significant increase in travel time in the medium and high density driving conditions," the researchers wrote. In medium and high density traffic, drivers talking on cell phones were 21 percent and 19 percent, respectively, less likely to change lanes (roughly six lane changes per 9.2-mile drive versus seven or eight lane changes by drivers not on cell phones). That may seem minor, "but if you have a lot of people who are not changing lanes and driving slower, this could substantially reduce traffic flow," Cooper says. When considered with the earlier studies, "it’s going to increase traffic congestion," says Strayer. "You have motorists on cells phones who tend to drive slower, their reaction times are slower, if they do hit the brakes it takes them longer to come back up to highway speed, and they are less likely to change lanes. Overall, they are more likely to gum up the highways." In low, medium and high traffic density, cell phone users spent 31 percent, 16 percent and 12 percent, respectively, more time following within 200 feet of a slow lead vehicle than undistracted drivers. That meant they spent 25 to 50 more seconds following another vehicle during the 9.2-mile drive. "If you were not distracted by talking on a cell phone, you would overtake and pass the slower vehicle and come to your destination faster," Vladisavljevic says. Strayer adds: "If you get two or three people gumming up the system, it starts to cascade and slows everybody’s commute." He acknowledges that, "in itself, staying in a lane and not passing might be construed as being safer, just as driving slightly slower or having a greater following distance also could be considered safer. But if you are doing that so you can take your mind off the road and talk on the phone, that isn’t safer." Compared with undistracted motorists, drivers on cell phones drove an average of 2 mph slower and took 15 to 19 seconds longer to complete the 9.2 miles. That may not seem like much, but is likely to be compounded if 10 percent of all drivers are talking on wireless phones at the same time, Cooper says. Vladisavljevic already has begun computer "microsimulations" of multiple vehicles. She tried the simulation repeatedly with the proportion of drivers on cell phones ranging from none to 25 percent. "We saw an increase in delays for all cars in a system, and the delays increased as the percentage of drivers on cell phones increased," she says. Strayer says it is important to show how cell phone use affects traffic because "when people have tried to do cost-benefit analyses to decide whether we should regulate cell phones, they often don’t factor in the cost to society associated with increased commute times, excess fuel used by stop-and-go traffic and increased air pollution, as well as hazards associated with drivers distracted by cell phone conversations." Martin says transportation analysts include two components -- accidents and delay -- when they calculate the "user costs" associated with road travel. "A fatal accident could cost as much as $5 million when we take into account medical, property and loss-of-income costs," says Martin. "Delay is measured by a composite number representing a measure of the value of a typical American traveler’s time. Today, this number is about $13 per hour. While the costs associated with accidents seem high, there are so very few of them, comparatively, they actually are dwarfed by the user costs associated with delay. If we compile the millions of drivers distracted by cell phones and their small delays, and convert them to dollars, the costs are likely to be dramatic. Cell phones cost us dearly." Adapted from materials provided by University of Utah. Need to cite this story in your essay, paper, or report? Use one of the following formats: APA MLA University of Utah (2008, January 2). Drivers On Cell Phones Clog Traffic. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 3, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102083801.htm

CellForCash.com Calls On Cell Phone Users Everywhere to Recycle Their Retired Cell Phones During Dec

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:15:11 GMT

More new cell phones are sold in December than any other month resulting in more cell phones being retired. CellForCash.com wants to remind cell phone users everywhere to recycle or sell those retired cell phones on-line at CellForCash.com.

Ocala, FL (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 -- For years December has traditionally been the most active month for new cell phone purchases and subsequently cell phone retirement. It’s also the time when consumers can use some extra spending money. RMS Communications Group, Inc. (http://www.rmscomm.com) helps cell phone users address both issues by paying cash to people who sell their retired cell phones using their website; www.CellForCash.com.

According to a recent report from M:Metrics, 12 percent of U.S. mobile users who bought a new phone last year did so in December, which marks a 40 percent increase in device sales during that month. "December is consistently the highest-performing month for new device purchases, and the operators have responded by embellishing their handset portfolios in time for the holidays," Paul Goode, senior analyst, M:Metrics said in a statement.

James Mosieur, CEO of RMS, says the stockpile of cell phones continues to rise regardless of recycling alternatives. "Most people don’t realize their old cell phone may be worth something. Of those who do, the vast majority have no clue how much it’s worth let alone how to sell it."

This is where CellForCash.com comes in. The website lists the value of over 600 different models of cell phones. Prices range from $5 to well over $200.00. If your cell phone does not qualify for payment the company will recycle it for free. Users simply find their cell phone, submit their information and CellForCash.com will send a return box with a pre-paid label affixed. Payment will be sent 30 days after receiving your cell phone.

"For almost every new cell phone purchased, one is retired" said Mosieur. "We estimate that nearly $500 million worth of cell phones are collecting dust when they should be collecting interest."

Getting cash back isn’t the only pay off, there an environmental benefit as well. In the last 12 months the CellForCash.com website has helped RMS divert almost 200 tons of electronic material from the waste stream.

About CellForCash.com

CellForCash.com pays cash for used cell phones and makes the process simple by displaying the phones it will buy and the prices it will pay for them right on the web site. It also provides sellers with pre-addressed, postage-paid mailing boxes. The site lists over 600 models from 21 manufacturers including Apple, Motorola, Nokia, LG, Rim and Samsung. For more information visit the web site at http://www.CellForCash.com

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800-627-2022

Cell phone reception becoming talk of Montana's small towns

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:39:12 GMT

Article published Dec 30, 2007

By KAREN OGDEN
Tribune Enterprise Editor

Charlie Ann Sangwin could hardly wait to try out her new cell phone so she could text her friends.

So Sangwin, 17, and her mom were crestfallen to learn they could get only a faint signal in their hometown of Chester. The Hi-Line farm town has no reliable cell phone service.

Although any teen would be disappointed, you can’t blame Sangwin for being upset — she is hearing impaired.

"Text messaging to me is a way to stay alive, basically. I’m a very friendly person, and a majority of my friends live in Great Falls," wrote Sangwin, a former student at the Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind in Great Falls. "Not being able to hear on the phone is hard. Not being able to hear on the phone, and not being able to even text my friends is extremely hard. It’s sort of like being put in the dark."

Sangwin also could plug her digital hearing aid into a cell phone, as can senior citizens who use the devices.

Her case brings home a debate in rural America: Is reliable cell phone service a luxury or an entitlement of 21st century life?

And if it is the latter — like the arrival of electricity in the last century — who should pay, and how, to deliver it to the most remote reaches of our state? (For more on that controversial question, read tomorrow’s article.)

As it happens, the Chester teen’s story has a happy ending.

Alltel Wireless announced earlier this month that it will build a new tower to serve the Chester area in 2008.

Thousands of Montanans still live or travel in the cellular outback, in canyons, coulees and remote prairies beyond the reach of the cellular signals that have become a standard tool for public safety, economic development and quality of life in more populous areas.

"We’re becoming a very mobile society to the extent that some populations can’t not be mobile and still do what they need to do, whether it’s a child who needs to text message or a worker whose work takes them away from wireline access," said Sharon Strover, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who heads a rural telecommunications panel for the Rural Policy Research Institute.

A recent Tribune solicitation seeking feedback from Montanans without cellular service, or with only spotty service, drew dozens of e-mail responses from towns including Windham, Stanford, Geraldine and Monarch as well as Hutterite colonies and folks living on the outskirts of Great Falls.

"We live four miles west of Vaughn and in order to even hear who is calling, we have to go out on the front porch and stand exactly in the middle ... to get any connection," wrote Don Greeno.

His cell phone gets enough of a signal to ring. So Greeno grabs it from its spot by the front door and dashes to the porch.

"I’ve got to stand, and I mean not hardly breathe, to carry on a conversation," he said. "The way they advertise, it seems that we should be able to get a reception anywhere we are."

Areas still without a signal are usually in cellular no man’s land. Some spots are geographically challenging, such as the heavily traveled Wolf Creek Canyon on Interstate 15 between Great Falls and Helena. Others are too remote and sparsely populated to make the expense of a new tower pencil out, such as the town of Geraldine, population 255, southeast of Fort Benton.

Still others, such as Greeno’s place near Vaughn, are just beyond the reach of a tower situated to serve a small community. Adding another tower to catch the homes on the fringes isn’t cost effective for a wireless company.

That rural areas are lagging in the cellular foot race comes as no surprise to many. Some call it a blessing.

"It frustrates the tourist fly fishing hordes all summer long, much to our delight," wrote John Heckert, with Izaak’s restaurant in Craig. "Sometimes we tell them that if they stand on the railroad tracks the rails will improve reception, and they fall for it. Oh well, the simple pleasures of a small town."

Those whose work is time-sensitive and takes them out of the office, such as real estate agents, doctors, contractors and farmers, are at a disadvantage compared with their cell-connected colleagues.

Kevin Drolet, a contractor from rural Massachusetts, expected to have limited service when he chased a dream and moved to a home between Fairfield and Augusta.

Yet he still must compete in a wireless world.

"I can be working out in Fairfield, or Vaughn or Simms and not have any cell service, and customers can’t get a hold of me," Drolet said. "They want to talk to someone right away and find out if you can do a job for them."

If Drolet doesn’t answer, the potential customer calls elsewhere.

"More than once it’s cost me business," he said.

On the mountainous Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation southwest of Havre, where service is spotty at best, the tribe often has to set up a landline at construction sites.

It’s an "added expense and a major inconvenience," said Tony Belcourt, a former tribal councilman now with the Chippewa Cree Construction Corp.

The town of Winifred considers getting a cell phone tower key to its survival.

The town’s Capital Improvement Committee recently surveyed residents about what infrastructure upgrades are needed to encourage economic development there.

Two-thirds of respondents rated cell phone service as "very important," said committee member Gary Shepherd.

"It would be very helpful to a small community in attracting people who would work at those businesses," Shepherd said.

When Ron and Virginia Gleason decided to relocate from Spokane to a rural area, they put good telecommunications on their checklist for prospective towns. Ron is a hospital administrator and Virginia does regulatory consulting for the health care industry.

"We turned down a couple opportunities because they didn’t have reliable high-speed Internet," Virginia Gleason said.

When the CEO position at the Liberty County Hospital in Chester opened up, the couple was pleased to learn that the charming Hi-Line town had quality high-speed Internet access. Virginia Gleason just assumed there was cell service too.

"I didn’t know the extent of the hole — the cell phone hole — that we were going to be living in until we moved here," she said.

Had she known, Gleason would have had serious reservations about moving to Chester.

"Without the technology that most people have become accustomed to, the rural areas are not going to be able to attract business," Gleason said.

She has since helped lead the town’s grassroots campaign to get a new cell tower.

More than 100 people attended an October community hearing on the lack of cell phone service held at the county courthouse. Seniors at C-J-I High School made bringing a tower to Chester their class project. And with Gleason’s assistance, the town sent proposals for tower locations to wireless companies and to Montana’s congressional delegation.

Whether the campaign led to this month’s announcement that Alltel plans to build a tower for Chester in 2008 is unclear. The company uses a sophisticated system to decide where to place new towers based on expense, need and technical ability to provide good service to an area, said company spokesman Scott Morris.

Customer input helps, he said, and townsfolk are calling their campaign a success.

"It really has been the whole town coming together ... everyone telling their story," Gleason said. "We need to be the squeakiest wheel because it’s the only way we’re ever going to be heard because we’ll never have the population to matter."

Beyond economic development, public safety is perhaps the biggest argument for universal cell phone coverage, both for Montanans and many tourists who travel through Big Sky Country.

The Essex and Pinnacle communities on U.S. Highway 2 between East and West Glacier sent a petition with more than 200 signatures asking for cellular service to wireless companies serving Montana.

Heavily traveled by tourists, the 60-mile stretch of highway saw 236 crashes from January 2002 through August 2007; 34 resulted in serious injuries and there were three fatalities, according to the Montana Department of Transportation.

"There’s no way to call emergency services. There are very few even other (landline) phones you can use," said Jan Haemig, who lives in Cut Bank and owns a cabin in the Essex area. "I think there’s a public safety issue there."

In Chester, the message that cell phones are a modern-day safety standard was driven home at the Liberty County Medical Center.

The lack of cell service was listed as the hospital’s number one weakness last summer in the hospital’s renewal review for its designation as a Level 4 trauma facility, meaning the emergency room can stabilize severely injured or sick patients for transport to a larger facility.

Stringent federal privacy laws make cell phones invaluable for ambulance crews communicating with emergency room doctors. Many rural homes have a police scanner so ambulance crews cannot give the ER the name of a diabetic patient, for example, over the radio so doctors can review the patient’s medical history ahead of the ambulance’s arrival.

The situation got hairy when a heart attack call came in during a blizzard last spring, said Yvonne Hunnewell, Liberty County 9-1-1 coordinator.

A helicopter was waiting 60 miles away in Havre to fly the patient to Missoula, but after 45 minutes, the ambulance had made it only 10 miles to Joplin.

The ambulance nurses needed to consult with doctors to decide whether to keep going or turn back. Unable to discuss the patient’s case over the radio, they found a turnout where they knew there was a cellular signal.

"The driver jockeyed the ambulance back and forth until we could get some service, and the crewmember had to roll the window down in this blizzard and hold her head out the window, and the nurse and I are yelling up to the crewmember," Hunnewell said.

The lack of cell phone service also is a quality of life issue for ER doctors, who have to carry handheld radios when they’re on call and must stay within a couple miles of the hospital. The unwieldy units look like something out of a M*A*S*H rerun.

"They have to take one of these call radios to church with them on Sunday," said Ron Gleason, the former Spokane resident who moved to Chester to become the hospital CEO.

With a cell phone, they would be able to go jogging, haul trash to the dump or go to the grocery store that’s out of range of the radios, Gleason said.

Although Chester is now slated to get a cell tower, the case illustrates how modern life, from business to medical care, has evolved around the cellular revolution.

Residents note that the county’s 9-1-1 dispatch center was required by federal law to upgrade its equipment to support Enhanced Wireless 9-1-1 technology, which would allow dispatchers to locate wireless callers through the GPS chip in their cell phone.

Although the county has been working on the upgrade for years and the technology will be fully installed within six months, the county seat had no assurance that it would get reliable cell phone service until last week. Cellular phone companies are private enterprises and are under no legal obligation to serve rural areas.

"The real issue is a matter of public safety," said Virginia Gleason. "(Cellular providers) have made billions of dollars off this product they sell, and now there’s some corporate responsibility. Their product is now the primary means of emergency communication." ***

Four charged in $177,000 cell phone theft ring

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:50:52 GMT

12/27/2007, 8:19 p.m. ET The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) - Four people face charges after police say they devised a scheme to order expensive cellular phones and sell them on the street at bargain prices.

Thirty-seven packages of Sprint/Nextel phones valued at about $177,000 were found by Madison Heights police after United Parcel Service officials reported that one of their drivers had been followed and approached by one of the suspects.

Antwon Robinson, 24, of Detroit; Lauren Porter, 21, of Chicago Heights, Ill.; Michael Cook, 26, of Dolton, Ill.; and Robert Jacox, 30, of Chicago face charges of receiving and concealing stolen property of $20,000 or more and conspiracy to receive and conceal stolen property, felonies punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Cook, who was driving on a suspended license, and Porter were detained by police Dec. 20 after a vehicle search revealed two packages containing cell phones worth $8,000, Lt. Corey Haines said.

Robinson and Jacox, who police say were on foot nearby, then fled when approached by officers. Jacox assaulted two officers while being taken into custody, police said.

Police later discovered that all four suspects were staying at area motels, where 18 additional phone packages were found. Seventeen boxes that had not been shipped also were recovered at UPS.

Police say the scam involved ordering cell phones using existing business accounts but sending them to fake addresses.

"... We believe the plan was to turn around and sell these $500 phones on the street for between $100 and $200," Haines told The Detroit News for an online story published Thursday.

Sprint reported several recent cases of phones that had been fraudulently ordered and sent to false addresses, UPS officials said.

Cook also faces charges for driving on a suspended license. Jacox faces charges of assaulting a police officer.

Porter has posted bail, while the other three suspects are being held in the Oakland County Jail in lieu of bond ranging from $20,000 to $250,000. They face a preliminary exam on Jan. 2.

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