Snapper wrote:

> After my recent jaunt around NE Victoria when I got home I
> found that the phone was displaying cell info from an area
> some distance from here.
>
> I'm not sure why this is. Maybe someone here can explain it.
> But I suspect that it (the cell in question) was the first one
> that the phone picked up after it entered back into a NextG
> coverage area.
>
> Why doesn't it update to show the current cell area?
>
> The phone's a Samsung A501.

UMTS (3G) cells don't broadcast cell name (area info) data yet.
Any you see come from times when the phone's camped on a 2G
(plain old GSM) cell.

John