Packing A Portable
August, 1994
If you don't already own a portable cellular phone, digital technology may be just the incentive you need. Now available in major markets such as Miami, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, digital cellular systems can handle about four times the capacity of current analog ones, which means cheaper calls and better connections. Static and background noise, for example, are diminished. And greater privacy is guaranteed: Speech is encoded as data, thus rendering it incomprehensible to an electronic...
