No, the wireless phone system connects to a tower, then sent to the recieving stations tower using the 2.4GHz on the G system. The Cell phone and old pagers works under the MHz band to a towered recieving station then up to the satellite. Think of it as a triangle network. Usually they operate on MHz clusters to either Cell Sector A or B at the recieving station inorder to connect with the satellite. We stopped using Cell technology in the 1980's then went to TDMA devices at around 800MHz.
You are thinking way too technical. Those recieving stations and their range are cells. Cell phones talk to the cell recieving stations. The stations use many methods to talk to each other and other systems to get the information where it needs to be, various frequencies, land lines,satilite'setc,Varies from company to company, place to place.Satilite phonestalk directly to asatilite. Also I think you may betalking about the directional microwave 2.4 Ghz and that has been around a long time.