900 mhz "radio" != "cell-phone" ?

["S. Champ" <s-champ@postoffice.pacbell.net>]

hello.

i'm still a ways away from being able to get into ham radio (had a bit of
experience in the civil air patrol. never got to set up or use a 'packet'
system, though). i came across the following, and it seemed interesting: 

http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/software/strip.html


<excerpt>
STRIP is a protocol for carrying IP packets over the "Starmode" interface of
Metricom's 900MHz packet radios. STRIP gives you a "wireless IP subnet", similar
to a conventional Ethernet network, except slower (and without the wires).
</excerpt>


a question:

are there radios available, that can use the 900 mhz range, without those radios
being considered as 'cell-phones' ? ( and hand-helds ... something in the text
of that page makes me wonder if it's a home-based system )


( and how do they avoid conflicting with cell-phone traffic in that range? is
there a special "public" part of it?  any URLs would be appreciated. )



thank you.


-- s.c.