Personal Communicator User's Guide

Messages Menu
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Cell Broadcast
These are general messages that your service provider broadcasts in
numbered channels to all Personal Communicators in a geographic area.
Please contact your service provider for a list of available channels and the
information they provide.
Note: Your communicator can receive these messages only when it is in Standby mode.
While a broadcast message is scrolling across the screen, you can:
• To stop and start the message, press
!.
• To remove the message, press ).
Note: The
! functions change while you are receiving a cell broadcast message. You need
to remove the message before
! functions return to normal.
When the message is complete, the beginning of the message remains displayed until you
remove it, a new message arrives, or you leave the geographic area.
From the Cell Broadcast submenu, you can select On to receive these messages, or Off to
stop receiving them.
Note: Selecting Off causes deletion of all stored cell broadcast messages.
Channel List
• Channel Index - displays a list of available channels that you can edit. When you edit a
channel,youalsoremoveanymessageassociatedwithit.Selectthechannelindexyou
want to modify then press (. Type in the channel number and press (. The channel
details are stored and your communicator returns to the channel index list.
• Delete All Channels - to delete all channel.
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