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	Man accused of taking copper wire from Travis cell phone tower
	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 Tags: cellular one phone \| cellular mobile pho

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	Cell phone reception becoming talk of Montana's small towns
	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 MASH 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." Tags:** cellular one phone \| cellular mobile pho

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	Four charged in $177,000 cell phone theft ring
	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. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. © 2007 Michigan Live. All Rights Reserved. Tags: cellular one phone \| cellular mobile pho

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A teacher of middle school tell, its students now a lot have supplied by they parent a cellular phone, to be brought to school. In one side, mentioned teacher assess good enough of role of parent to supply its child's a cell phone. But its impact, students in class seldom turn off there cell phone so that disturb hour lesson.

Student bringing cell phone to school will ever can be watched by its parent, for fear that there is something that do not be wanted. When the student get problem, for example, they can be direct contact its parent, or on the contrary. About, giving of cell phone of parent to its child, enough vary, besides with reason take care of security, but also most more focus to a or prestige of style, stylish. A period of child do not give cell phone whereas its child friends have at having.

There is again its reason of him, what likely cannot avoid, that is when one family have to move house to other town, while its child not wish to follow to move to new town. Father have to move to new town, because having to job in place newly, as head. While its child wish to learn and end school in him town. Is hereinafter agreed on among them, father move out town, while its child linger on in old town. So, in this case, its father have to buy and supply its child a cellular phone, to facilitate communications.

In newspapers reported on many, peoples have money to buy hand phone to be passed to their children. So that existence of cell phone have not such a luxurious goods or of secondary again, but have become goods requirement of primary. Like requirement of clothes and shoe.

Return to teacher of middle school mentioned, which tell if child affection non by buying cell phone, but guide him or give congeniality, if bringing cell phone to class will bother school activity. For example, moment learn is explaining lesson, sudden heard by cell phone jingle, so that students concentration annoyed.

Likely, here have to look for its solution which enough wisdom, namely good so that to parent and is harmless of teacher. Parents have to give congeniality to its child's, so that brought hand phone is turn off first when learning. So, in peaceful class, and parent even also at home peace.

You is all knowing, many benefit of usefulness of cell phone. Now journalist in a newspapers, shall no longer simply having cell phone. But, a lot look for cell phone by is assorted of feature. Cellular phone not only simply sending sms (short message system) and voice, but is also wear to send picture.

A commissioned journalist far outside office, claimed have to quickly deliver a picture (image). Now, journalist besides can send text and voice, also can send picture of image, even video.

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