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The first is Wordline. With this model you get updates on sports, news and entertainment. The price is $79.99.

The second model is the Advisor Gold. This model offers four lines of 80 character alphanumeric display. The price is around $160.

The third model is the Advisor Elite. With this model you not only get everything that is offered in the previous models but also 30,000 characters of writing as well. The price is $129.99.

There are three models of alphanumeric pagers that Comcast offers. per minute of air time.

Although pagers and cell phones have great advantages, there are also disadvantages.

For one, both pagers and cell phones run on batteries. So at anytime they can shut down. Another disadvantage of cell phones is that there can be interference when you are out of the range of the signal.

Pagers have a unique style all of their own. If you don't know, pagers are little electronic boxes which take in voiceless phone calls.

"Pagers are really good because when I'm out with my friends or I'm at work people can get ahold of me," said sophomore Michelle Tetzlaff.

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Claude Chappe in- Alexander Graham vents the telegraph. It Bell invents the telemarked the first time phone. Now sounds messages could travel can be transmitted quickly over long through wires over distances. long distances.

The one major disadvantage of the a pager is that your not directly talking to the person calling. In an emergency this is crucial because details are needed.

So the battle rages on between the pager and the cell phone. Which one wins is for you, the consumer, to decide.-

• Cellulartechnologyuses FM radio wavesto transmitsounds;no telephone wires meansno dial tone

The first cellular ser- Testing of cellular service vice took place. Now by the FCC is concluded. sound can be carried Washington D.C. and over long distances Chicago become the first using radio waves, cities to offer commercial not wires. service.

There are more than 1,500 cellular systems operating in the U.S. It is predicted that by the year 2000 there will be close to 90 million subscribers to cellular service.

• Analog transmission carries sound over the airways

• Digitaltransmission transforms sound into computer languageand then back into sound