Thats totally bogus. You cannot predict what specific frequency a cell
phone will land on when it rings.

you are correct. I was going to say that maybe it was a cordless phone the lady
and her husband mistakenly called cellular. But then I realized it couldn't be,
since that wouldn't work everyhere (such as the studio instead of their home)
for someone calling that specific phone number if it was a cordless phone.

therefore definitely celllular. But I don't think Dr. Phil was being dishonest
either. Maybe he meant that as soon as the phone rang he gave a hand signal or
some kind of signal to his (producers???) to scan for the cell phone frequency
(the current frequency the phone was on) and play it through the studio's
speaker. That's what I suspect probably really happened.

You can hear cell phones on radio frequencies as soon as they start ringing
before they're ever picked up to be answered.

And a lot of people already said that as long as you're not mobile, the cell
phone transmission will stay on the same frequency throughout the whole call.
(such as in a stufdio).

However, I don't know how likely it is the producers or whoever could have
found the correct frequency of that particular phone.

It probably depends on the time of the day it was recorded (how many other cell
phones were ringing or not ringing on the radio at the same time) and where the
show iss filmed or taped (how busy or unbusy cell phone signals would be).

I guess it's possible that one of the producers or whoever had a frequency
counter (though probably unlikely) since Dr. Phil suspected tht the phone would
ring some time (according to him).

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that it's still possible that it
was all legitimate and not bogus.

although it could also have been bogus like you said.

However, my opinion for now, is that it was probably legitimate.

I think they scanned for the frequency while the phone was ringing and either
it was the only cell phone ringing on the radio at the time or else they
scanned for the strongest cell phone signal, and then played the audio through
the studio speakers.

A scanner was probably alsready set up to play through the speakers at the
time, especially if Dr. Phil suspected ahead of time the guy would bring his
cell phone.

However, I have known some tv shows to be bogus like you said. so you might
still be correct. regarding that.

after all, I have been wrong lots of times.

And here's one I fell for. Once, a weekly tv show that was on here said that
they were going to have The Rolling Stones on the show the next week.

Now, I don't care about The Roling Stones. However, when I tuned in to the show
the next week, this is what was on:

Large rocks (stones) with still pictures of The Rolling Stones on them. one
picture per stone.

None of the actual group in person. And the actual group never agreed to appear
on the show in the first place.

so it wasn't a lie. They DID have The Rolling Stones on the show that week.
Just not in the way you expected them to be.

Just a number of large stones with a still picture of each member of the group
pasted onto each stone.

I should have realixed. It was right around April Fool's Day.

although the announcement was made on the show weeks before April Fool's Day
that the Roling Stones would soon be on the show and also made on the show
about the week before April Fool's Day that The Roling Stones would be on the
show the next week.

The show did not air on April Fool's Day that year. That's why I said it aired
around April Fool's Day that year.

However, I did fall for it.