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		escaine 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Burner Phone 101 Surely this is really easy to prove by putting a phone into an anechoic chamber and using a spectrum analyser to show that it's still TXing?

joha4270 27 days ago [–]

The phone isn't going to connect to a tower it cannot see.

It can't just scream out into the void and hope a tower picks it up, it needs a few pieces of timing information & cell configuration beforehand.

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