Someone told me that police scanners pick up cell phone conversations and that is...

[UnderwaterAngel]

...how she listened in on her? husbands cell conversation with the girl he was cheating with. Is it true that cell phones can be heard by your neighbors?

 

[yaktur]

Most cell phones are digital these days.

In the "old days" when cell phones were analog, you could pick them up with an unblocked scanner around 860-880 MHz.

These days forget it, you need all kinds of digital decoding stuff. And the frequencies are higher too.

So in summary? No, you cannot use police scanners in general to pick up cell phone conversations.