Path: utzoo!attcan!cmtl01!matrox!uvm-gen!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Setup Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 89 17:41:05 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 28 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 28, message 4 > Question: Is it possible to access cellular setup channels and place > fraudulent call with a ham radio? Technically no, because a radio operating on the appropriate freqencies would not be an amateur radio. The words "ham radio" is a synonym for amateur radio, a regulated radio service by the FCC that allows radio enthusiasts to construct and operate their own radios. The modes of operation and frequencies in use are well defined by the commissions rules. Use of the term to mean any person building his own radios (for degenerate purposes) is like the bastardization of the term hacker. Please avoid doing it. It is by far easier to defraud the phone company by modifying a legitimate cellular telephone. The thing already does most of the work (the radio part and most of the dialing). All you have to do is hack the roms a bit to make them operate with phony ID's. -Ron [Moderator's Note: It is far easier to go to the penitentiary that way also. Remind me to search my files for the newspaper story of the fellow here in Chicago last year who was convicted of operating a 'reprogramming for profit' cellular phone 'repair shop'. When IBT security representatives, Chicago police and FCC personnel raided his place, they found not only cellular phones being liberated from billing constraints. It seems the dude was also into freeking CB radios; getting them broadbanded and oscillating in the ten meter band. Six months in the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative followed by two years federal probation is not my idea of how to spend my summer vacation. P. Townson]