He urged customers to not attempt to reach dropped phones themselves.

There was no indication that Alicia ever searched for the dropped phone.

There was the dunk of a dropping phone on the other end, and a faint wailing sound.

The drop phone number is in California.

Researchers found that moving the buttons also resulted in fewer dropped phones when adjusting the volume while talking.

Kate continues to get dropped phone calls and mysterious calls from unknown callers.

“If the Verizon store is down the block, our customers will now know that they can drop phones off there.”

Users have also lamented dropped phone calls and frequent switching from 3G to slower 2G networks.

They were reliable: a dropped phone rarely cracked, and a dropped call rarely occurred.

Face then calls Sosa on a drop phone he planted on her at the train station, and conspires a different plan with her.

Dropped phone and stood under doorjamb panting and wild-eyed until Ken came to tell me my tortilla soup had gone cold.

Ive taken command of your truck, Sarah, says Renos voice, his tone faint but clear from the dropped phone spinning on the metal floor.

Max Clifford, the public relations expert, reportedly accepted £1million in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.

Rival mobile networks said privately they saw a huge rise in dropped phone calls and failed text messsages to O2 customers at the height of the blackout.

"It was terrifying," she says, recounting the devastation to Bob Schieffer from Santiago after several attempts were aborted by dropped phone connections.

In that case, the iPhone 4 introduction last year was met with a wave of bad publicity and customer complaints about dropped phone calls and weak wireless signals.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, last year took to his own Facebook page to slam the device for having a poor battery and dropping phone calls.

For an adult with no big risk factors (no outdoor job, history of dropping phones in toilets, or propensity to leave phone in taxi cabs), I'd probably skip the added expense.

Along with the truck, and later used vans purchased from Telesat in Canada, Conus developed a comms, or communications, system which allowed satellite transmissions without the need to drop phone lines.

The materials posted online say about two-thirds of the requests were related to a "dropped phone," but the rest were "basic" requests to help identify other suspects or conduct "other investigative work," according to the official.

The brand-new radio chip in the Apple iPhone 3G has been causing the company a bit of indigestion in recent weeks as customers complain about dropped phone calls and intermittent connections to the highly touted 3G network.

But like the other large regional phone companies created by the breakup of AT&T in 1984, Qwest is also losing business as consumers drop phone lines in favor of cellphones and as land-line competitors move into its home territory.

Though he has plenty of admirers, Steiner has been attacked on many fronts: for parading his learning too ostentatiously, for dropping phone books of names on the slightest pretext, for occasional sloppiness, for allowing his enthusiasm to outstrip his understanding.

Allegations of NCAA recruiting violations, a midseason coaching change, a threatened player boycott and a quick exit from the Big Ten tournament have made Indiana's high national ranking and legitimate Final Four expectations disappear as quickly as a dropped phone call.