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# Sit your mobile
next to a radio or TV and listen to the number of times it transmits!

Thats how they work: they log in continually to a central system that tells it which 'cell' it is in (hence cell-phone). If yours is a Nokia you can tell it to display the postcode your in.
(Boo-Tokk is like, DUDE, and WHOA, its AWESOME, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 9:48, archived)
# can you?
ive got a 8310, what do i press?
(I helped save b3ta! monkeymanblue mathematically safe, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 9:51, archived)
# the buttons
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 9:52, archived)
# Ha!
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 9:55, archived)
# I've got a Sanyo now so I wouldn't know
but my 8010 used to. Something in settings or display.
(Boo-Tokk is like, DUDE, and WHOA, its AWESOME, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 9:55, archived)
# It's also network
dependent - not all networks transmit that info. Orange and T-mobile don't anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! bob dinosaur, Fri 24 Jan 2003, 10:01, archived)