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How A Cell Phone Works

Kurnilah Azzahra explains how cell phones work in 3 sentences: Cell phones communicate with other phones by transmitting radio signals to cellular towers connected in a network, which route the signals through a central switching station that directs calls either to other cell phones or traditional wired telephone lines. Towers have different ranges for receiving signals but areas have multiple towers to handle increased call volumes as cell phones allow millions to communicate through voice, text, and data from anywhere.

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How A Cell Phone Works

Kurnilah Azzahra explains how cell phones work in 3 sentences: Cell phones communicate with other phones by transmitting radio signals to cellular towers connected in a network, which route the signals through a central switching station that directs calls either to other cell phones or traditional wired telephone lines. Towers have different ranges for receiving signals but areas have multiple towers to handle increased call volumes as cell phones allow millions to communicate through voice, text, and data from anywhere.

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Name : Kurnilah Azzahra

Class : XI MIPA 1

HOW A CELL PHONE WORKS

A cell phone is a great gadget in this modern world. What is a cell phone? A cell
phone is actually a radio in certain way. Like a radio, by a cell phone we can communicate to
other people in real time. Million people use cell phone for their communication. Even
nowadays, people use cell phones to communicate in voice, written and data.

A cell phone or in long term “cellular telephone’ works by transmitting signals of


radio to towers of cellular. The towers are networked to a central switching station. The
connection usually uses wire, fiber optic-cables, or microwave.

Then the central switching station which handles calls in certain given area is directed
connected to the wire-based telephone system. Cellulars are pick up by the towers and
relayed to another cellular telephone user or the user of wire-based telephone network.

The towers vary in the capacity and capability to receive signals. Some can receive
the signal from short distance and the others can receive more distance. However, there are
usually more than one tower in certain given area so that the system can handle the increasing
telephone traffic.

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