[quote=Penguin]
"She had idly played with her phone, communicating with old friends as the elevator rose."
[/quote]

I hate to be that guy, but the station is in the middle of the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt which is 2 to 4 astrological units away from the sun which would make it, on average, 222.9 million km away from earth. It would take on average approximately twenty two minutes for [i]light[/i] to reach earth, let alone cellphone signals. Besides, I'm pretty sure commercial cellphone satellites don't reach that far. Even if they did, I strongly doubt that the signal would be particularly good... XD