Call zone

Call Zone was a telecommunications service provided by the then Telecommunications Equipment from 1991 to 1997.
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Call Zone was, in its basic form, a portable public-telephone service of sorts. Users of this service were provided with a portable cellular telephone. The phone could make calls only in certain areas with a Call Zone sign displayed, and was unable to receive calls. Given that mobile phones were still costly then, these call-zone phones were used in tandem with pagers.
Given that most call-zones had public phones nearby, the service was spurned as a gimmick for Telecommunications Equipment to rake in more profits. Sales were low, and the service was removed by 1997, with the decreasing costs of mobile phones. Some Call Zone signs can still be sighted around the island as of May 2009.
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The phone used was a mouthpiece-flip Motorola unit, similar in design to the Motorola MicroTAC. The phone was curved however, as opposed to the boxy lines of the MicroTAC. These phones came in black with rubber trim in different colours, and had a one-line LCD screen which was limited in what information it could show.
Very few of these phones now exist, and with the withdrawal of the service, are unable to make calls.

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