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An electronic device for use as a communications terminal including means for determining a location of the electronic device, means for storing that location in the electronic device, means for receiving a wide-area broadcast, and means for executing location-specific instructions contained within

An electronic device for use as a communications terminal including means for determining a location of the electronic device, means for storing that location in the electronic device, means for receiving a wide-area broadcast, and means for executing location-specific instructions contained within the wide-area broadcast, responsive to the stored location. The invention further comprises a method for delivering a data channel signal having a plurality of location-dependent instructions, from a transmitter to a plurality of receiving units. The method comprises the step of transmitting the data channel signal to the plurality of receiving units. Once received by a particular receiving unit, the particular receiving unit identifies and executes location-dependent instructions within the data channel signal which correlate with the location of the particular receiving unit as stored in that receiving unit. The location of the particular receiving unit may be determined internal or external to the particular receiving unit and may be transmitted to the particular receiving unit as part of the data channel signal.

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An electronic device for use as a communications terminal, comprising: means for receiving a communications control channel signal through which said electronic device receives a list of operating information, including location information on a location of said electronic device, a plurality of cha

An electronic device for use as a communications terminal, comprising: means for receiving a communications control channel signal through which said electronic device receives a list of operating information, including location information on a location of said electronic device, a plurality of channel names, a plurality of data rates, and a plurality of frequencies, for a plurality of selectable channel signals, each of said plurality of channel names associated with a frequency and a data rate as a channel name association, with channel name associations modifiable through updating of the list of operating information; means for storing the location of said electronic device as a stored location; means for selecting, by a user, a selectable channel signal by selecting a name of the selectable channel signal as a selectable-channel-signal-name, the selectable channel signal selected dependent on the stored location; means for identifying a particular frequency and a particular data rate associated with the selectable-channel-signal name from the list of operating information; means for tuning to the particular frequency and the particular data rate associated with the selectable-channel-signal name; and means for receiving, simultaneously with receipt of said communications control channel signal, the selectable channel signal.