On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:41:17 +0100, Ian Dalziel
wrote:
>>Could you tell us why phones have been equipped with such technology?
>
>Because it is marketable. It allows targeted advertising.
>
>Contacting a switched-off phone would be even more marketable. Please
>supply me with the URL of a web site which will allow me to do that?
If a company were to routinely switch on a mobile that was turned off,
it would certainly *not* attract customers. Quite the reverse.
>(You might consider changing your handle from Cynic, by the way)
>;-)
Why? I am very cynical about the motives of government and government
agencies - which is what this is partly to do with.
--
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