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Green Bank, West Virginia bans cellphones, TV, radio and WiFi
2013-08-12 11:15:06| Wireless - Topix.net
The town of Bomont outlawed dancing in the movie Footloose, but the kids in Green Bank, West Virginia live with much worse: no electronics.
FCC hopes to avoid 'end of world' for cellphones
2013-05-24 13:49:27| Wireless - Topix.net
The path to clearing up enough airwaves to satisfy the insatiable demand for mobile downloads is a confusing, complicated mess.
A town without wifi or cellphones is attracting the electrosensitive
2013-04-17 11:55:31| Wireless - Topix.net
Whenever TreeHugger covers the issue of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, we are deluged with comments about it being anti-scientific nonsense.
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At 40, Cellphones Are Sexier but Still Lousy Conversationalists
2013-04-03 23:09:00| TechNewsWorld
Forty years after Motorola Communications' Martin Cooper placed the world's first call over a cellphone in 1973, the quality of calls over mobile devices probably isn't much better than that initial call. Although cellphones have evolved from the first brick-sized devices to svelte devices with Web search and video capabilities, users continue to suffer from spotty reception and dropped calls.
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FCC To Examine Federal Ban On Unlocking Cellphones
2013-03-02 03:22:59| Telecom - Topix.net
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski says his agency will investigate whether a federal ban on unlocking cellphones is "harmful to economic competitiveness." As Bill reported in February , a law that went into effect this year makes it illegal for Americans to unlock - or reprogram - new cellphones.