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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.electronics
Subject: free calls?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 06:25:18 GMT
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OK: here's one to research. My son told us of a friend at work, whose
father had picked up from am aquaintance at a major aerospace/electronics
company, a replacment chip for some model of cellular phone. This 
replacement chip (possibly a ROM or pROM) supposedly allows unlimited
free calling.

Now, I can see a probable difficulty in *receiving* calls on the
modified phone, as the unit ID may be what gets modified/trashed, but
it would seem at least possible that unlimited *outgoing* calls could
go through without being billed. For example, the ROM could ID the
unit as a service rig, and billing would be to the carrier's overhead...

Any thoughs as to the likelihood of this being true? Where I could
get such a beast (for educational purposes, only, of course!!)?

Dave            dbell@cup.portal.com

{I am in no way affiliated with any cellular carrier, ICC, FCC, etc, etc}