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Re: Position escrow

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