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For nearly 80 years, the 207 area code has been part of Maine's culture. But how and why did the state end up with those three numbers?

When a large amount of people are using their phones via the same cell tower, it can lead to potential slowdowns and dropped calls, and it's sometimes virtually impossible to connect to a network.

There’s nothing more frustrating than not having cell phone service, especially when you really need it. Mainers have chimed in with the positives and negatives of the leading cell phone providers, as well some some cheaper providers you may not have heard of.

Yeah, there's an app for that!

If the phone has rang at an inconvenient time, and it was from Dish Network, you may be able to receive compensation for the time everyone turned around and judged you hard.

You had no speed dial back then, either.