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1998-04-27 - Re: Position escrow

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From: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
To: Phil Karn <frantz@netcom.com
Message Hash: 9af60d283fa162bab98e59cedabd4c529ff7e726da9ab52920ce5242f62908c8
Message ID: <19980427161120.A3217@caffeine.ix.net.nz>
Reply To: <v03110713b16406e293aa@[207.94.249.80]>
UTC Datetime: 1998-04-27 04:12:17 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:12:17 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
To: Phil Karn <frantz@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Position escrow
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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:49:24PM -0700, Phil Karn wrote:
> Somebody should point out to the carriers that they could get rid of
> much of the incentive to clone phones if they simply offered a
> legit way to remain anonymous.

Bellsouth do that here, sort of, with GSM SIMs. 

You buy SIMs with 'pre-pay' on them and after a certain amount of air time
have to buy another one. Presumably these are regular SIMs and the expirey
is done by the network.

There should be lots of these SIMs around in theory... can anyone say STM?

Check out http://www.bellsouth.co.nz/prepay/prepay.htm for details.



-Chris

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