Basic Trope: Fictional cellphones are either more unreliable than Real Life cellphones, or fictional characters are less likely to possess them than in the real world. * Straight: Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower. * Exaggerated: Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York. * Justified: Bob is in an out-of-reach location where it genuinely is difficult to get a cellphone signal (such as a basement, the middle of a desert or Antarctica). * Inverted: * Alice's cellphone is so powerful it is capable of doing things no cellphone should be able to do. * Alice has a satellite phone. * Subverted: Despite bei