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Well, a cell phone tower shoots out waves to your cell phone. The waves happen to shoot out 360 degrees of the tower. The waves happens to be called a cell. Whenever you are out of the cell you get poor reception and vice versa for being inside of the cell.

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The coverage area around each cellular phone antenna tower is called a cell. (see: http://www.answers.com/topic/mobile-phone)

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