Re: Three Texas Men With Cellphones Arrested on Terrorist Charges

Aug 20, 2006 0 Replies

TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to a writer:


> Well, if they did think that either the "terrorists" were stupid or
>> the Feds were stupid since TracFone won't work anywhere other than
>> in North America and only works where there's a compatible network
>> none of which are in Iraq or anywhere else in the Middle East, Asia
>> or Europe for that matter.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What you say is true, however the
> phones could be used to make anonymous calls between 'terrorists' here
> in the USA easily enough. So if 'sleeper cell A' needs to coordinate
> its activities with 'sleeper cell B' or if either one of them need to
> report to or get more instructions from terrorists in Iraq, that would
> make the TracFones rather ideal, wouldn't it? PAT}

Well, that can be said for any prepaid service since you are not required to register any of them. If people wish to do nefarious deeds you may make it more difficult for them, but you're not going to stop them.

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