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Information Source for Cellular Telephony, PCS, and Wireless data
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RADIOPHONE Cellular Telephone Programming Information The authoritative Internet source.
Authentication - The cellular carrier's latest weapon in fighting cellular phraud
Wierd tidbit: A correspondent reports: "Some people are paying Digital Rates & using Analog phones, they program their phone with a Digital ESN & give that to the Cell Carrier then just us the Analog side of the system w/ any AMPS phone, don't ask me-I aint tried it so I don't know about that one." Motorola phones use different ESN prefixes for digital phones, so one could simply use RadioPhone's ESN Prefix Table to make up a D-AMPS (TDMA) ESN.
Free Cellular
Calls Without Cloning - Alternatives to cloning your cell
phone.
Monitoring Cellular System Data streams. - i.e., with "DDI" boxes.
Read the Wireless Week article of August 12, 1996 about RadioPhone, and my responses.
World Cellular Guide New! Still somewhat primitive.
CDPD means data transmission over AMPS cellular.
Easy ESN will read your ESN back to you.
Brian Oblivion's Cellular Telephony Files:
Other tutorials & general cellular information
Cellular Utilities Misc. Programs related to cellular.
Explanations of terms used in cellular programming. Not yet complete.
Pager protocols, web interfaces, reprogramming
More technical information.
Miscellaneous Cellular-related Web Pages.
If you want to read boring business propaganda from some telecommunications companies who really don't seem to understand that you have to provide some information of value on a web page, go ahead

| NewsGroup | Description | Servers | Servers |
| alt.cellular | General discussions about cellular | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.oki.900 | OKI 900 info | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.cdma | Discussions About CDMA | your server | |
| alt.cellular-phone-tech | Technical discussions about cellular | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.tech | Same as above | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.motorola | Discussions about Motorola phones | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.ericsson | Discussions about Ericsson phones | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.nokia | Discussions about Nokia phones | your server | |
| alt.cellular.gsm | Discussions about GSM | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.verizon | Discussions about Verizon phones and service | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.sprintpcs | Discussions about Sprint PCS | your server | news.venus.net |
| alt.cellular.cingular | Discussions about Cingular | your server | news.venus.net |
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