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Mobile phone

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A mobile phone or cell(ular) phone is an electronic telecommunications __________. Most __________ mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations, which is in turn interconnected to the __________ (PSTN)(the exception are satellite phones). Cellular networks were first __________ in the early to mid 1980s (the 1G generation). Prior mobile phones operating without a cellular network, such as Mobile Telephone Service, date back to 1946. Until the mid to late 1980s, most mobile phones were __________ that they were often permanently installed in __________ as car phones. With the advance of miniaturization, __________ the vast majority of mobile phones are __________. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, a mobile phone can __________ many additional services such as SMS for text __________, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video.

Mobile phones are distinct from __________ telephones, which generally operate only within a __________ range of a specific base station. Technically, the term mobile phone includes such devices as satellite phones and pre-cellular mobile phones such as those operating via MTS which do not have a cellular network, whereas the related term cell(ular) phone does not. In practice, the two terms are used nearly __________, with the preferred term varying by __________.

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