Posted on 03/15/2011 9:14:36 PM PDT by musarratullah
Peshawar , 16 March 2011 , Pakistan army has ban the unregistered mobile phones in tehsil kabl of swat , yesterday forces announces the order through loudspeakers in Nangoli area mosques. The elders of the area announce the order of security forces, that no body will use unregistered mobile phones for communication, if some body used unregistered mobile phones, they will face 20 thousand rupees fine. Security forces also urged the people of said area that they registered their mobile phones with the mobile companies. According to local sources mobile companies also start campaign in different areas of swat to register the mobile phones. The action has taken because some terrorist used unregistered mobile phones for communications and after tracing the calls it difficult for forces to detain the callers because no body know the owner of mobiles phones.
I love Tracfone. Costs me about $150 a year to have a phone on me at all times.
But the state has a right to monitor all your conversations, and you have no right to resist.
Plus, you're cheating the telecommunications companies out of their exorbitant contract fees.
If they criminalize unregistered cell phones....then only criminals will use them....
The gov’t has the capability of collecting any communication other than two tin cans connected with a string. And even on that one you never know about the guy on the other end...
How much is 20,000 rupees in $$$?...
The call them “burn phones” for a reason.
Pretty hefty for India, 442.025 USD
1 Pakistan Rupee = 0.01169 US
lets call it 100 to one US
in pakistan 233 dollers...
pakistan rupees 86 equal 1 dollers
I use a similar prepaid service through Verizon. 15 bucks a month and if I don’t pay I don’t have service even though as soon as I put more money on it I have service again. I may not get the minutes per dollar but I mostly use it for mobile coms with the wife (also verizon and therefore free) the minutes don’t roll over unless I put more time on before the month is up but I don’t have a contract either. When I was in Europe in the late 90’s almost everyone had these type of phones and I wondered why they weren’t available in the US at the time.
Wrong rupee...........
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