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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. Why do they bother? by minuszero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They'll never beat the ol' Spaghetti Tree Hoax of '57...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/a pril/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm

    Apparently the supermarkets sold out for fear of a shortage.