Top rated cellular phone providers in the United States are Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobil, AT&T and Nextel. Each provider claims excellent networks, and have their own specials that are used to advertise. For example, Cingular allows the consumer to keep rollover minutes, and Nextel has free in-coming minutes. To get the plan and phone that is [...]

In the United States, there are 130 million subscribers. These phones become obsolete more quickly than in other countries because Americans discard them either because they want to be able to download new ring tones or perhaps they want a video phone. Another reason they are discarded is the new law that allows one to [...]

A Western Union internal memo stated “this ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. This device is inherently of no value to us” The memo was dated 1876. Fast forwarding to 1947, we find the fledgling beginnings of the cellphone. Mobile car phones were crude at the time. [...]

Text messaging, also known as SMS, is sending short messages between two devices, usually two cellular phones or it could be between a cell phone and a palm device or a pager. Some companies have email to cell phone messaging also. The messages need to be short, and thus, abbreviations have been established. Some of [...]