Can You Hear Me Now?

Hoping to capitalize on students' preferred technology, colleges sell cellphone plans that supply campus information

Walk onto any college campus, and students chatting on cellphones are almost as ubiquitous as jeans and backpacks.

For the most part, college officials have grudgingly tolerated the behavior. Many don't like it that students no longer make long-distance calls from land-line phones in dormitories, which used to generate a steady stream of revenue for colleges. And

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