There is probably not a story on this.
I was in business doing radio work, mobile telephones and that sort of thing for 45 years.
I am familiar with developemnts in those fields. There was a big fight over the wiretap issues before the FCC.
There was a federal law passed that required wiretap capability. In paging companies, the provider has to provide the pager address code so a duplicate pager can be used to record all paging transmissions.
All cellular switches (the central office) must provide a wiretap port so selected phones can be recorded.
There are too many signals (thousands) for a scanner to be able to track and record a particular phone.
During the Clinton administration they had Echelon, which is a computer program that could monitor all this, including internet.
i think this was part of clinton surveillance of all republicans. i think the
amount of wiretapping that went on during their administration would
be mind-blowing. i wish someone would out them.
wife-o-buckhead