I could be mistaken but doesn’t the FCC only regulater transmissions and not receivers? So if these are only receiving and monitoring then can the FCC do anything? Now if they are sending as well as receiving I get the point.
Apparently so. Another FReeper here who is also a wireless engineer enlightened me about it. I was just listening to Beck, and he had on the CEO of the company that makes the phones in this story, and he said these "fake towers" usually aren't towers at all.
He said that they could simply be a computer with a couple of connected antennas. Someone could have a laptop in a hotel room(for example) that could do this, and potentially 'capture' phones within a half mile radius.