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The Mobile Phone
Mobile phones or cellular phones are telephones which use a "radio" called a transceiver (transmitter-receiver) to send and receive signals to and from the mobile telephone network.

Mobile phones operate in the 800 Mhz range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

 girl using mobile phone
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Australian mobile phones operate in the range of 825 MHz to 960 MHz.
Which band of the electromagnetic spectrum does this correspond to?
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