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VHF highband (channels 7-13 - and note that there are 14 1/3 "channels" between channel 6 and channel 7) is -full of- full power digital channels (many VHF highband stations elected to "come home" to VHF, most often to save on electricity).
VHF lowband is another story - almost nobody wanted to be digital on channels 2-6 (reception virtually requires an outdoor antenna at some height above ground), only a handful of DTV stations are on each lowband channel, thus the band has been opened for DX, from low power US stations, and full-power analogs from Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America.
BTW - I have not heard anything about VHF cell phones. I don't think anybody wants to carry a telephone with a 15" whip antenna sticking out of their shirt pocket :-)
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