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echo: cellular
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from: BLAKE BOWERS
date: 1996-07-10 17:28:00
subject: Cloning issues... Reprint

Not for debate, per the moderator...
Just info.
Wireless Business and Technology, Volume 2, number 6, July 1996.
Page 10
Maryland signes anti-cloning law.
A new law, Signed by Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening, will make it a crime to 
possess, use or distribute a cloned telephone in that state.  The Maryland
State Police proposed the law, which will take effect on Oct 1.
Cellular Business, july 1996.
page 66
AirTouch Cellular Granted Favorable Court order.
"In a suit that AirTouch filed, the federal court ruled that the Cellular 
Extension Company was violating FCC orders and regulations that ban the
imitation of ESN's on Cellular Phones"
"The court also ordered that Cellular Extension Company provide AirTouch with
it's business records pertaining to the altered phones, including the names,
addresses and telephone numbers of entities for whom the company emulated
cellular phones"
Cellular Business, July 1996
page 66
Comcast Cellular attacks cloning fraud.
Also fighting the war on fraud is Comcast Cellular, Palo Alto CO.  The 
arrier
has begun installing the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system from 
Corsair, Palo Alto CA, in its delaware, New Jersey, and Philadelphia
markets.  PhonePrint uses RF fingerprinting technology to detect and 
disconnect
calls from cloned cellular phones.
... Bill Clinton....The Eddie Haskell of Politics!
--- PPoint 1.98
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* Origin: KD4RME, The POINT of it all.... (1:284/99.10)

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