RE: Wireless phone question

["Michael P Fitzpatrick Jr." <fitzradio@the-spa.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Bill O'Neill
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:12 PM
> Subject: Wireless phone question
>
>
> If you have your cell phone on (not on the line) is the phone signal
> traceable?  Not sure how the technology works.  It seems that the
> phone must
> send a signal to the tower/voter system, or am I not even close?
>
> Bill O'Neill

No. The only way the phone is "traceable" is if you actually have it
connected to the repeater system (in other words, making a phone call). If
the phone were to always transmit a signal that the phone company would want
to trace, it would take up valuable spectrum and repeater space. Some phones
contain a GPS unit which if triggered can indicate the phone's location to
the nearest cell tower in an emergency.

--Mike

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