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  2. Communication during the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    Following the attacks, the issues with the cell network weren't resolved until 36 cellular COWs (cell towers on wheels) were deployed by September 14, 2001, in Lower Manhattan to support the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and provide critical phone service to rescue and recovery workers.

  3. Type Allocation Code - Wikipedia

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    The Type Allocation Code (TAC) is the initial eight- digit portion of the 15-digit IMEI and 16-digit IMEISV codes used to uniquely identify wireless devices. The Type Allocation Code identifies a particular model (and often revision) of wireless telephone for use on a GSM, UMTS, LTE, 5G NR, iDEN, Iridium or other IMEI-employing wireless network ...

  4. Motorola DynaTAC - Wikipedia

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    A DynaTAC 8000X; the first commercially available mobile phone from 1983. Electrical engineer Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first publicized handheld mobile phone call on a prototype DynaTAC model on April 3, 1973. This is a reenactment in 2007. The DynaTAC is a series of cellular telephones manufactured by Motorola from 1983 to 1994.

  5. Cell site - Wikipedia

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    A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular -enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network. The raised structure typically supports ...

  6. Iridium satellite constellation - Wikipedia

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    The Iridium system was designed to be accessed by small handheld phones, the size of a cell phone. While "the weight of a typical cell phone in the early 1990s was 10.5 ounces" [6] (300 grams) Advertising Age wrote in mid 1999 that "when its phone debuted, weighing 1 pound (453 grams) and costing $3,000, it was viewed as both unwieldly and expensive."

  7. Cellular network - Wikipedia

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    A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless and the network is distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver (such as a base station ). These base stations provide the cell with the network coverage which can be used for ...

  8. This iPhone Hack Can Help Reduce The Number Of Spam ... - AOL

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    Android users have a way to block unknown numbers, too. For Android phones: 1. Go to Settings, then select Blocked numbers. 2. Toggle on the Unknown option. This will block private or unidentified ...

  9. Rooting (Android) - Wikipedia

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    Rooting[ 1] is the process by which users of Android devices can attain privileged control (known as root access) over various subsystems of the device, usually smartphones and tablets. Because Android is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative ( superuser) permissions as ...