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Originally Posted by jerrylittle
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Quote from Mr Prelinger @ his link (updated 2004)..........
"When cell phones were introduced to the American consumer market in 1983, scanner listeners immediately discovered that calls could easily be monitored. Though people had been listening in to mobile telephones, marine telephones and cordless phones for years, there were comparatively few mobile phone users compared to the numbers of cell phone customers which were soon to reach the millions. Cell phone monitoring soon became a major pastime, and hundreds of thousands of scanners were probably sold for this purpose alone. The cellular telephone industry quickly became concerned. If they were not able to guarantee some measure of communications security to their customers, they worried that adoption of the new technology might stall. Two choices confronted them: either develop encryption technology or seek legislation forbidding cell phone monitoring. Since the second appeared less expensive, even if ineffectual, the Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA) lobbied Congress, and in 1986 the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was enacted.
The ECPA divided the spectrum into go-and no-go regions. It criminalized cell phone monitoring, interception of digital signals and digital pagers, and listening to certain other specific services. It made the sales of cellular-capable scanners illegal. Now, all scanners legally sold in the United States have a gap between 824 and 893 MHz. There was little concern that this law was unenforceable and possibly unconstitutional, but it allowed cellular carriers to boast that it was illegal to monitor customer calls. This strategy seems to have worked, as cell phone sales marched on throughout the 80s. Then in the early 1990s, digital cellular and digital PCS services began to spread. These systems cannot be monitored without special equipment to which most hobbyists lack access. The new Nextel phones are similar, though it is rumored that there is government back door access to its digitally encoded voice and data system.
The jails haven't exactly filled up with scanner listeners and hobbyists in the years since the ECPA legislation took effect, but it did exert a chilling effect on their activities. "
The Link..................
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/58/prelinger.html
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