[2584] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Position escrow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wedgwood)
Mon Apr 27 08:31:55 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:11:20 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>, frantz@netcom.com
Cc: geer@world.std.com, die@die.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199804222049.NAA26335@servo.qualcomm.com>; from Phil Karn on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:49:24PM -0700
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
