Abstract: A disposal unit for discarded smoking products has, a lower tubular section mounted on a base, an upper tubular section with an interior partition to form a closed-bottom receptacle for the discarded smoking products, a removable cap covering an open end of the upper tubular section, and the cap and tubular sections are detachable from one another for emptying the receptacle.

Abstract: Satellite communications systems include a base station configured to communicate messages to disadvantaged mobile radiotelephone terminals. A mobile radiotelephone terminal receives a communication from a base station via a first high power paging channel and, if disadvantaged, monitors a second high power forward-only radiotelephone channel identified in the communication. The base station, upon determining that the mobile radiotelephone is disadvantaged, broadcasts the pending message to the mobile radiotelephone terminal via the second forward-only radiotelephone channel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a mobile terminal having a receiver for receiving a time multiplexed message distributed over a plurality of time slots by receiving a first subset of the plurality of time slots so as to receive a first portion of the time multiplexed message corresponding to the first subset of the plurality of time slots. The mobile terminal then determines from the first portion of the time multiplexed message if additional time slots of the time multiplexed message need to be received by the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives a second subset of the plurality of time slots so as to receive a second portion of the time multiplexed message if the mobile terminal determines from the first portion that additional portions of the time multiplexed message are to be received by the mobile terminal. This first portion of the message is preferably independently decodeable from the remainder of the message.