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DA Wants to Restrict Pre-Paid Cell Phones


hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
24 Jan 2007 11:56:30 -0800

The Montgomery County, PA (suburb of Philadelphia) district attorney
wants to restrict pre-paid cell phones.

I find this idea very troubling, kind of Big Brother. Does anyone
agree with the DA?

"To get a prepaid phone, all you have to do is plunk down your cash
and walk out of the store -- no paperwork necessary. Castor says
that's a problem for his detectives because they can't track down the
owner of the phone."

For full story please see:
http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/189133.php?contentType=4&contentId=294741

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Actually, the way the DA would search
for such a person would be the same way he located anyone else; he
would subpoena the sales records. He would ask the seller of the
phone to produce the record of whom the phone was sold to, the
'mystery caller' as it were. Ditto for any 'non-stationary' phone.
Now, granted, the buyer may have plunked down cash and given a
false ID for the purchase, but I am sure many buyers also used
credit cards or a check. The DA also might try dialing the number
under some pretense and seeing what he can find out that way. PAT]

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