Why Don't Cell Phones have Dial Tones? [telecom]

Phones have come a long way since the old landline days. Our smartphones are light, fast, and have more computing power than NASA used to put a man on the moon.* Some advances came not by adding things to the phone, but by taking things away. Noticeably missing for anyone of a certain age is the dial tone. What happened to it? We don't need it anymore. Or, at least the phones don't.

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Posted 5 years ago by Joseph Singer in General Telecommunications Forum

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