Rexico - Slashdot User

Comment UK surely a more appropriate target? (Score 5, Insightful) 172

by Rexico on Monday August 07, 2006 @08:43AM (#15858286) Attached to: County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan

If this can work in the U.S., presumably it would work even better in the UK with similar internet usage and a much higher population density.

UK Government to Shut Down GSM Networks 94

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @07:50AM from the worrisome-most-worrisome dept.

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."

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