Story here:
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/feb/28/multiple-hikers-rescued-near-cathedral-peak/It's amazing how many people get decent cell phone reception in the mountains. Most places I go hiking, I can barely get a bar, if anything at all (and that includes our house, which is in some sort of dead zone.) Then again, my phone
is six years old.
That said, even with a newfangled iGadget I still would prefer relying on a PLB or Spot...