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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. Is it me? by jpellino · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or is this year's 4/1 just too obvious and lame.

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  2. sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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