On the contrary the CDMA/TDMA phones still use the same band as the AMPS
units.

As far as listening to conversations there are a few analog signals left but
towers limit the amount of analog conversations as they take up a lot more
space than digital. Analog seems more prevalent for customers from a TDMA
provider traveling in a CDMA market or vise versa.

So to answer his question - yes you can but you aren't going to here too
much

"T-bone" wrote in message

Can you receive cellular phone calls on a modified scanner? I thought
with all phone being digital now you could not?

There is very little activity in the old cell bands - What with analog
roaming and such, there is still a little.
So yes, people advertsing their scanners as UNBLOCKED !!!!! are really
saying
very little in practice - The only good reason to pay a premium to get one
would be to bank on the possibility that some other service of interest
will
eventually move into this frequency region.

I notice our phones always switch to analog out here at home. We are on a
small ranch in Texas golf coast area. I know all the trees kill the digital
signals. Had the same trouble with my police radio in the cruiser when I got
close to home. I had to switch from the 800 trunked stuff to vhf to be able
to hit the dispatcher. I guess this is kinda the same thing?? I know squatt
about cell phone technology. haha!