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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
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To: Neeka who wrote (64137)5/29/2007 12:32:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 197073
 
<Why would a cell phone need to check in to the nearest base station if it were sitting idle?>

I suppose so the base stations know who is where so they know where to send phone calls. If a cellphone stays quiet, then travels 1000 km to another zone, a call to that cellphone wouldn't know where to go. All the base stations would say they didn't know where it is. So the messages wouldn't get through.

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