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Pirate radio goes GSM!
by Guy J Kewney | posted on 24 February 2006
The really interesting question is "why?" - why would anybody set up a pirate GSM network? But in Afghanistan, apparently, it's like selling poppy-juice. Technically, illegal but...
The Authorities there have caught up with one priate GSM net in Kabul. They have closed it down, and - as the Cellular-news reporter phrased it, it was illegal: "Following research they found this illegal telecommunications company which was located in Wazir Akbar Khan, worked without legal permission."
You make money in cellular even if you don't have subscribers; terminating calls coming in from other carriers provides an income.. for a bit. So it's not necessarily as daft as it sounds.
But what is daft, is the discovery that this is a cottage industry: H. E. Eng. A. Sangin Minister of Communications "stated that according to the Communications law article #58; these kinds of companies would be fined in accordance with their work extension and area of Coverage from two millions till ten millions."<1/>
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