When someone calls my cell phone but I am in another city how in the world does the call find me?

Question

My daughter called me on my cell phone while I was out on the highway in another state 300 miles from her home. How in the world did the call locate me when no one knew where I was?

Answer 1

When you turn your phone on it reports your phone number (registered in your sim card) to the nearest cell tower. From there, your carrier's nation wide network routes your calls similar to how the internet works.

Answer 2

The cell phone has to register with a tower as you move into a new area. The phone will also regularly make contact with the tower to maintain that connection. When you leave one towers coverage there is a handoff which occurs to the next tower. The network always knows where to ring your phone.

If the system did not do that you would not be able to drive around your home town as you are always changing towers. So out of town or in town luckily the entire darn thing just works.

Answer 3

well, that is the advantage of having a cell phone, you can be reached anywhere in the world, as long as your carrier is global..i've used my cell while im in another country, the only dis-advantage is the bill.

regarding your findings, you did give your daughter the number, so she can dial and get you, location will be unknown, so it's up to you to let her know where you are at that moment.

Answer 4

hey big brother always know where you are so next time you thinking about messing around remember this. noew to answer your question it called radio waves and your cel phone acts as a reciever and the cel towers transmit a signal to your phone, nuf said

Answer 5

Satellite

Answer 6

all cellphones no matter what have different Electronic serial numbers (ESN) when you are connected to any tower it knows to route your phone number to your ESN

Answer 7

um there is a satellite dish that conncets the calls

Answer 8

C3LL PHON3 TOW3RS

Answer 9

LOL oh my . Cool huh

Answer 10

tht's tecnology for u