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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. Ouch by taskforce · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The worrying thing is, I didn't bat an eyelid, and totally expected this from my government, until I got to the comments reminding me that it was April Fools Day... (Despite a full knowledege that it was April Fools Day, when I saw the words UK and Government in the same sentance I entered paranoia mode)

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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. Wouldn't surprise me... by dyftm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It wouldn't surprise me if I saw this story in a couple of years time, but not on april fool's day. We really are the lobsters slowly being boiled.

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

    +5 insightful