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  2. Mobile Telephone Switching Office - Wikipedia

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    When the MSC gets the call, it checks its database for the location of the phone. Then it picks a frequency pair the phone will use in that cell to take the call. The MSC communicates with the phone over the control channel to tell it which frequencies to use, and once the phone and the tower switch on those frequencies, the call is connected.

  3. Mobile phone tracking - Wikipedia

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    An indoor location tracking map on a mobile phone. Mobile phone tracking is a process for identifying the location of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. Localization may be affected by a number of technologies, such as the multilateration of radio signals between (several) cell towers of the network and the phone or by simply using ...

  4. List of mobile virtual network operators in the United States

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    Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in the United States lease wireless telephone and data service from the four major cellular carriers in the country—AT&T Mobility, Boost Mobile, T-Mobile US, and Verizon—and offer various levels of free and/or paid talk, text and data services to their customers.

  5. Cell tower decision: Hampton ZBA to vote on controversial ...

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    Vertex is looking to implement a two-tower approach to boost cell service near and along Route 1 by adding coverage in Hampton and North Hampton. The company has already received approval for its ...

  6. AT&T outage: Company says network is fully restored after ...

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    Here (via USA Today) is how to do it on both iPhone and Android devices: Wi-Fi calling for iPhones: Tap Settings. Tap Phone. Toggle Wi-Fi calling. Wi-Fi calling for Android devices: Open your ...

  7. Cellphone surveillance - Wikipedia

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    A tower dump is the sharing of identifying information by a cell tower operator, which can be used to identify where a given individual was at a certain time. [7] [8] As mobile phone users move, their devices will connect to nearby cell towers in order to maintain a strong signal even while the phone is not actively in use.

  8. Hurricane Ernesto leaves half of Puerto Rico without power ...

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    Daryl Jaschen, the director of the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency, said in a news conference Wednesday that, in addition to the outages, six cell phone towers were knocked ...

  9. Mobile phone signal - Wikipedia

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    A display of bars on a mobile phone screen. A mobile phone signal (also known as reception and service) is the signal strength (measured in dBm) received by a mobile phone from a cellular network (on the downlink). Depending on various factors, such as proximity to a tower, any obstructions such as buildings or trees, etc. this signal strength ...