The mobile phones of older residents buzz constantly as they pass on information and rumours.
Residents of mobile home parks in England have been given new rights to protect them from rogue site operators.
Change the regulations applying to mobile home sites to protect residents from unscrupulous owners.
But he said residents of the mobile-home park also told him that one siren sounded weaker after the storm knocked out some of the city's power.
Other ideas for development include using mobile phone technology to allow residents to find the quietest route into the city centre or the hospital Accident and Emergency unit with the shortest waiting time.
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The current rules balanced delivering services to the UK's 50 million mobile phone users and allowing local residents a voice, added Mr Dolan.
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Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said his government would launch a new program to spay and neuter dogs in order to reduce the number of animals in the street, sending 25 mobile surgical units to neighborhoods where residents would be encouraged to take advantage of free sterilization for their pets.
FEMA, possibly ashamed, subsequently offered trailers and mobile homes for Dumas's homeless residents (though Arkansas still had to pay for their transport and setting up).
In 2010, U.S. residents got rid of 152 million mobile devices, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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The problem became so severe that the Conservative-controlled county council launched an online reporting service asking residents to snap potholes on their mobile phones.
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Syrian residents confirmed the blackout, but said mobile phones and landlines were working normally.
In Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast, residents prepared for the possibility of heavy rain and wind gusts as strong as 30 mph early Tuesday.
Those mobile phone tower attacks have limited the ability of residents and security forces to call for help during attacks, as well as have cut the government's ability to use the signals to track suspected militants.
The Salvation Army handed out 1, 000 personal hygiene kits to residents in three counties and would bring a mobile shower unit to people displaced by the floods in the Lake City area.
Cheshire East has been using a mobile information trailer with a directory of councillors and information for residents about how the council will operate.
Tell that to the residents of Wishaw near Sutton Coldfield where a huge mobile phone mast overshadowed 35 of the houses, until someone pulled it down one bonfire night.
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"We'd also like to encourage residents that either live in low-lying areas or mobile homes, or if they just feel vulnerable to the situation at hand, to maybe move to safer locations, " she said.
Channel Island residents have been reassured by the head of environmental health that mobile phone mast emissions are within safe limits.
Mobile operator O2 is to provide free internet to "millions" of residents and visitors in central London by launching Europe's largest free wi-fi zone.
The report said the demand for broadband among deep rural residents was not being met and that many continued to experience variable mobile phone reception.
Desperate residents -- who at least had enough power to charge their mobile devices -- used social media to try to avoid long lines or empty gas stations.
And residents in some German towns can switch on local street lights using their mobile phones.
North Korean mobile phone provider Koryolink is planning to launch a 3G data service for foreign visitors and residents from abroad.
Greenpeace's Rolling Sunlight mobile solar power array has been touring the streets of the Rockaways this week, enabling residents to charge their phones and other devices.
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Mobile medical apps for smart phones and iPads are already allowing doctors to order lab tests and meds and residents are using them to look up drug interactions.
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