Posted on 08/01/2010 4:08:56 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
I think it's more like it's about time somebody spilled the beans.
Add to that the A5/1 and A5/2 encryption used in most GSM phones is easily broken these days, and GSM has serious problems. IIRC, A5/3 is on pretty shaky ground too.
Thank the French. They didn’t want civilians using high-strength encryption, so had the standard made purposely weak. France had some pretty draconian laws against private use of encryption until the late 90s.
Yours is another example of market to market comparisons. We switched TO AT&T 8 years ago due to Alltel (a company many equated with rural service) not servicing the rural area we were in very well. AT&T was FAR better in that circumstance.
Still today, AT&T is still the better carrier (though Verizon is finally starting to get serious around here).
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