Re: OT: Meaning of the word

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <LfwM7.38232$xS6.62450@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <3C021EA6.4221485E@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says...
>>
>>I think Americans call them cellphones, but in the UK they're "mobiles"
>>(or as they become ubiquitous, just plain "phones").
> 
> "Cell phone", yes. Its two words. Its short for "cellular phone". The companies
> selling them like to shorten it to just "cellular" (as they sell non-phone
> functionality as well), but you don't hear people on the street using that one
> much.

US companies selling such service other than on the original 800 Mhz
"A carrier" and "B carrier" AMPS service often use the term "wireless"
to indicate that what they offer is somehow not "cellular" in nature.

To the best of my knowledge, only satellite phones and home-based
good-for-300-feet-from-the-base-station phones are "wireless" but
not "cellular" in nature.  Non-AMPS service may have cells of different
sizes, but that does not make them non-cells.