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Johnny555 on July 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015)

I can send a text message to my phone and have it be received within a second or two, so my phone must be connecting with the cellular network at least once a second.

jeffbush on July 25, 2016 [–]

It wakes up around once a second to listen on the paging channel, but it doesn't transmit at that time.

Udik on July 25, 2016 | [–]

It's funny how developers have completely lost the idea of real push messages, and ended up thinking that the client always have to initiate the connection.

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