»Tank, I need an exit«

Okay, so in The Matrix, the rebels can use cellphones to contact their operators, but they need a land-line to exit and enter.

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Why??

WWW Chat:

Revenge says: What is the symbolism of all the analog rotary phones?
WachowskiBros: There's a couple of meanings. We liked the analog nature of older technology. We liked the suggestion of old original phone hackers. It sort of suggested the big Rube Goldberg device that's in the mirror scene.

If I remember correctly, in the Matrix world only hard-lines can handle large amounts of information (codes that form the human avatars)whereas mobile-phone lines don't have that kind of bandwidth.

Of course, that's only in the Matrix world... it was progammed that way I suppose..

CYH