UK Government to Shut Down GSM Networks 94
An anonymous reader writes "Mobile Gazette is reporting that the British government wants to shut down the UK's GSM networks next year and re-use the frequencies for gambling terminals and a new citizen surveillance program extending the use of the new compulsory ID cards. Although we should perhaps welcome the move away from old-style 2G mobile phone networks, there are perhaps a few worrying things about the new "Big Brother" citizen monitoring that the government is proposing to put in."
Why do they bother? (Score:2, Interesting)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
Apparently the supermarkets sold out for fear of a shortage.