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HANDHELD CELL PHONES

Introduction

With cell phones and wireless laptops becoming almost as necessary to society as food and shelter, it's no surprise that in today's fast-paced society, where more people rely on new and innovative technologies, inventions that people wouldn't have dreamed of living without years ago are fast disappearing from the American landscape.
The cell phone and pay-phone industries, for example, are undergoing big changes. A report by the Federal Communications Commission said that there were about 1.3 million pay phones in the country in 2004, compared with 2.1 million in 1997. BellSouth has moved completely out of the pay-phone business and other local telephone companies are no longer installing pay phones, said Vincent Townsend, the president of the association and Pay-Tel Communications, a pay-phone provider in Greensboro (Way we Communicate 2006). Today, pay phones are available generally at convenience stores and to a lesser degree at malls......

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