Cellular Phone

The **Cellular Phone** can be bought for 1999 coins in the Electronics Store. It comes with 300 cellular phone minutes prepaid, and a Phone Number Book to keep track of phone numbers.

## Usage

Since the cell phone is not required to interact with other objects, it can only be equipped manually from your backpack's inventory.

Open the lower cover to access the buttons, dial the number and press the green handset button.

Extending the antenna halfway gives you one extra bar of call quality, while fully/mostly extending it gives two extra bars. In some areas, like the podium area at the Ski Mountain, fully extending the antenna only gives one extra bar. When calling at a call quality of one bar, most of the words will be missing.

You can tap the Phone Number Book button in the lower left corner to open the book and use the quick dial option. Alternatively, you can open the book directly from your backpack and use quick dial, then the phone will be equipped automatically.

You can't use it while in Ranger Danger.

## Minutes

Cellular Phone Minutes are needed to make calls. You can buy 300 minutes for 200 coins. To do this, visit Electronics Salesman Jr in the Electronics Store, or call `555-6469`. You can call this number on a Telephone too.

The minutes are based on in-game time, so it’s best to read the text as quickly as you can. They are spent even faster if calling from Roaming areas (see Service Coverage below).

If you run out of minutes while on the call, you will still be able to finish the call.

When you have no minutes, you can only call emergency numbers, or call `555-6469` to refill the minutes.

## Phone Number Book

You receive the Phone Number Book when you buy your cellphone. It allows you to track phone numbers, excluding those which are randomized or can only be used once. You need to call the number at least once to add it to the book. You can also call any of these numbers from a Telephone.

You can tap the black button near the phone number to quick dial it. Upon pressing the button, the antenna is fully extended as Sasquatch automatically inputs and dials the number.

## Service coverage

Most frequently visited areas have normal coverage. That means that cellular minutes are spent at a normal rate.

In some (moderately) remote areas, the cell phone switches to Roaming mode. That means that the cellular minutes are spent much faster. Roaming areas include:

* Sturgeon Lake
* Maze
* Ski Mountain: Snowball Fights Arena, Snow Rally track, middle level (including Hot Springs), upper level.
* Island
* Dirt Racetrack, including the road to it
* River

Some areas have no cellular service at all, and you are unable to make a call from there (even with an extended antenna). Such areas include:

* all underwater areas
* all underground areas: caves, Sewers, basement floors of buildings, Raccoon Shop
* all elevators, including in buildings without basement floors
* very remote areas:
	+ Northern Ocean, including the Island Campground
	+ Southern Ocean (though you can use the cell phone there with a glitch)

### Trivia

* Town Hall floor B2 has normal cell phone coverage. This floor is an even deeper than B1, which has no service. This is probably a bug.