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UK Government to Shut Down GSM Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worrisome-most-worrisome dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mobile Gazette is reporting that the British government wants to shut down the UK's GSM networks next year and re-use the frequencies for gambling terminals and a new citizen surveillance program extending the use of the new compulsory ID cards. Although we should perhaps welcome the move away from old-style 2G mobile phone networks, there are perhaps a few worrying things about the new "Big Brother" citizen monitoring that the government is proposing to put in."

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  1. Re:Is it me? by Trogre · · Score: 1, Funny

    Funny, I don't remember anything too obvious or lame on 4th of January this year.

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  2. Re:April Fools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course it is.
    The Government could never get that project in place by next year.
      RJG.

  3. Re:Is it me? by TangoCharlie · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's you... because as far as I know, it's not the 4th of January in the UK.

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  4. Re:Ouch by carou · · Score: 2, Funny

    For me the eyes-burning pink-colored css-styled atrocity that is today's main page was kind of a giveaway.

    After games.slashdot.org, nothing would surprise me.

  5. MOD PARENT UP by NigelJohnstone · · Score: 4, Funny

    +5 insightful

  6. OMG: Another by phorest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blair lied, cellphones died!

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