The telephone may be an important communication tool in your job search and can leave a positive impression with a potential employer, if you plan ahead. For outgoing calls, write a script. Your script should include the name of the person, company, title and the name of the referral who suggested that you call.

I often get asked by clients whether it is legal to tape record telephone conversations. I always answer that question by asking them a couple of questions, namely: will at least one participant in the telephone call consent to your recording the call? What state(s) will all of the participants in the call be in while the call takes place? The reason these two questions are critical is because Arizona is called a “one party consent jurisdiction.” What this means is that in Arizona an individual must have the consent or agreement of at least one party to a conversation to legally intercept or record a wire or electronic communication, including wireless and cellular calls. If one party to the conversation has not consented to your intercepting or recording the telephone call you will be committing a felony (Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3005). In addition, using a device to overhear (but not record) a conversation while not present, without the consent of a party to that conversation, is also a felony under Arizona law.

I often get asked by clients whether it is legal to tape record telephone conversations. I always answer that question by asking them a couple of questions, namely: will at least one participant in the telephone call consent to your recording the call? What state(s) will all of the participants in the call be in while the call takes place? The reason these two questions are critical is because Arizona is called a “one party consent jurisdiction.” What this means is that in Arizona an individual must have the consent or agreement of at least one party to a conversation to legally intercept or record a wire or electronic communication, including wireless and cellular calls. If one party to the conversation has not consented to your intercepting or recording the telephone call you will be committing a felony (Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3005). In addition, using a device to overhear (but not record) a conversation while not present, without the consent of a party to that conversation, is also a felony under Arizona law.

The Arizona Supreme Court refused Wednesday to force Attorney General Terry Goddard to approve new rules protecting phone customers from "slamming’’ and "cramming.’’

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Mesa cellular phone store where officers say one of the men pointed a gun at the clerks and told her she had 10 seconds to hand over the cash or he’d shoot her.

When it comes to communications services, Phoenix is one of the most competitive cities in the United States. Crack open the Phoenix telephone directory and see for yourself.

A Gilbert woman was arrested for domestic violence after stabbing her husband’s cell phone early Monday morning, police said.

NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is launching a faster generation of wireless Internet access in two cities, Washington and San Diego, promising download speeds between five and 10 times quicker than dial-up service and the typical cellular-based data connections currently available.

NEW YORK - Four top cable TV providers announced a long-awaited deal to deliver their own cell phone services through Sprint Nextel Corp., creating a "quadruple play" of voice, video, Internet and wireless products for a new battle against telephone companies that are adding TV to their arsenals.

JACKSON, Miss. - Bay St. Louis Police Chief Frank McNeil faced the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with no communications. And all along Mississippi’s tattered coast, residents scrambled to find ways to tell loved ones they had survived.

A retired Mesa police sergeant has pleaded not guilty to charges of child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Today, children are more knowledgeable than any generation in history. Even so, there are many things in the adult world children do not understand. It is important for children to understand addiction and mind control at an early age.

A Mesa man has been sentenced to three years in prison for sending nude pictures of himself to a young girl’s cell phone.

A Chandler-based distributor of satellite telephones is rushing communications equipment to the ravaged Gulf Coast, which lost most of its conventional land line and cellular telephone service to Hurricane Katrina.

While the cell phone industry is hopeful that the buyout of AT &T Wireless by Cingular Wireless will ease competition by eliminating one national rival — and possibly more if the merger prompts more deals — two other telephone companies are poised to crowd the market with their own national wireless offerings.

The standoff at the Arizona Corporation Commission over letting Qwest Arizona into the state's long-distance market has dragged on for several years now. It breaks few hearts that the much-maligned telephone giant has been shut out of a lucrative portion of the telephone market.

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MENLO PARK, Calif. - Sheila Vreeburg has entrusted her cell phone number to very few people — her family, close friends and her veterinarian. If she could keep it that way, she would.

In an age where multi-tasking is ever more being considered essential to our survival, driving and texting is without doubt the most stupid and dangerous and yet it continues unabated.

Highlights of preliminary results of exit polls conducted in Arizona for The Associated Press and television networks:

Salt River Project is expanding a ban on employees using wireless communication devices while driving on company business to improve its safety measures.

If the parents or guardians want to see what their child is sending or receiving on their phone then it is their legal and moral right to be able to.

A man was robbed at gunpoint after another man jumped inside his car at a Mesa Circle K convenience store and forced him to drive him to a nearby neighborhood late Monday.

Augusta Ranch Golf Club in Mesa has launched a new tee time app that is available for iPhone and the Android.