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There is also the mysterious phenomena in China where 21 million cell phone accounts have disappeared ( cancelled ).

See here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-closing-of-21-million-cell-phone-accounts-in-china-may-suggest-a-high-ccp-virus-death-toll_3281291.html

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“The digitization level is very high in China. People can’t survive without a cellphone,” Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based China affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times on March 21. “Dealing with the government for pensions and social security, buying train tickets, shopping … no matter what people want to do, they are required to use cellphones.

“The Chinese regime requires all Chinese to use their cellphones to generate a health code. Only with a green health code are Chinese allowed to move in China now. It’s impossible for a person to cancel his cellphone.”

China introduced mandatory facial scans on Dec. 1, 2019, to confirm the identity of the person who registered the phone. As early as Sept. 1, 2010, China required all cellphone users to register phones with their real identification, by which the state can control people’s speech via its large-scale monitoring system.

Furthermore, Chinese people’s bank accounts and social security accounts are bundled with their cellphone plans; apps on Chinese phones check SIM cards against the state’s database to make sure the number belongs to the user.

Beijing first launched cellphone-based health codes on March 10. All people in China must install a cellphone app and register their personal health information. Then the app can generate a QR code, which appears in three colors, to classify the user’s health level. Red means the person has an infectious disease, yellow means the person might have one, and green means the person doesn’t.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on March 19 the number of phone users in each province in February. Compared with the previous announcement, which was released on Dec. 18, 2019, for November 2019 data, both cellphone and landline users dropped dramatically. In the same period the year before, the number of users increased.

The number of cellphone users decreased from 1.600957 billion to 1.579927 billion, a drop of 21.03 million. The number of landline users decreased from 190.83 million to 189.99 million, a drop of 840,000.

In the previous February, the number increased. According to MIIT, the number of cellphone users increased in February 2019 from 1.5591 billion to 1.5835 billion, which is 24.37 million more. The number of landline users increased from 183.477 million to 190.118 million, which is 6.641 million more.

According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, the country’s population at the end of 2019 was 4.67 million larger than in 2018, reaching 1.40005 billion.


2 posted on 03/30/2020 7:31:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have always been at war with Eastasia, Winston................


5 posted on 03/30/2020 7:37:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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“There is also the mysterious phenomena in China where 21 million cell phone accounts have disappeared ( cancelled ).”

Could be the Govt working to shut some individuals up? Also if they are not working how many in China can afford a phone? It’s not a right over there.


17 posted on 03/30/2020 7:51:57 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: SeekAndFind

If you’re from Guanzhou and work in Shanghai, you have to have a Shanghai phone.

Why?

Because it’s easier for state security to track you.

So if you’re going home, you turn off your phone.

Also because cellphone rates are expensive, people are given company phones. Company closes - no more phone.

Finally, China is economically collapsing. People are canceling all their services.


39 posted on 03/30/2020 8:52:00 AM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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There is also the mysterious phenomena in China where 21 million cell phone accounts have disappeared ( cancelled ).


This one makes me wonder how long it takes the dead to cancel their phone service.


44 posted on 03/30/2020 9:30:16 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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