Guardian: Privacy fear over (new) plan to store email etc --- effects on society

[Roland Perry]

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<7A22BCE2D43E9D46B2D0FB6E2071C4520154A4@pc1-swin1-4-cust84.oxf.cable.ntl.
com>, David_Biggins@usermgmt.com writes
>Agreed, but as I understand it, they are to be sold over the counter.
>
>If cash is paid, there will be no identification, no?
>
>Nobody is going to be prepared to go through a huge ID rigmarole for a
>phone with only a few dollars of prepay credit.

They still need connecting to the network. The phone company may insist 
on that "rigmarole" (perhaps dependent on how many people demonstrably 
get up to mischief with the phones and cause grief to the phone 
companies).
-- 
Roland Perry