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  2. Emergency Cell Broadcast System - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Cell Broadcast System ( ECBS) is an alert broadcast system in the Philippines, designed to disseminate emergency alerts and warnings to mobile devices via cell broadcast services (CBS) [1] Telecommunications companies and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) are both mandated and required by law to send ...

  3. Stingray phone tracker - Wikipedia

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    The StingRay is an IMSI-catcher with both passive (digital analyzer) and active (cell-site simulator) capabilities. When operating in active mode, the device mimics a wireless carrier cell tower in order to force all nearby mobile phones and other cellular data devices to connect to it. [ 9][ 10][ 11] The StingRay family of devices can be ...

  4. Cellphone surveillance - Wikipedia

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    Cellphone surveillance. Diagram showing the operation of a StingRay device for cellphone surveillance. Cellphone surveillance (also known as cellphone spying) may involve tracking, bugging, monitoring, eavesdropping, and recording conversations and text messages on mobile phones. [ 1] It also encompasses the monitoring of people's movements ...

  5. Mobile phone tracking - Wikipedia

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    An indoor location tracking map on a mobile phone. Mobile phone tracking is a process for identifying the location of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. . Localization may be affected by a number of technologies, such as the multilateration of radio signals between (several) cell towers of the network and the phone or by simply

  6. IMSI-catcher - Wikipedia

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    An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher, is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking location data of mobile phone users. [ 1] Essentially a "fake" mobile tower acting between the target mobile phone and the service provider's real towers, it is considered a man-in-the ...

  7. 999 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112. All calls are answered by 999 operators, and are always free. [ 2] Approximately 35 million 999/112 calls are made in the UK each year, with 74% from mobiles and 26% from landlines in 2022.

  8. Telecommunications in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    This led to the Philippines has become the global capital of text messaging, which was a feature of the mobile phone that was ignored by other countries. Meanwhile, in 2001, the popularity of the text messaging in the Philippines has created a subculture called Generation Txt , where teenagers and young mobile professionals have developed their ...

  9. Mobile number portability - Wikipedia

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    Overview. Mobile number portability is implemented in varying ways across the globe. The international and European standard implements "recipient-led" porting, in which a customer wishing to port a telephone number contacts the new network (recipient), which sends the number portability request (NPR) to the current network operator (donor).