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Originally Posted by R1slowflyer  nope not illegal! welcome to the patriot act.
hell did you know that a cell phone company has the ability to turn your cell phone on without there being any sign of it being on. they can listen into every conversation you have, and this is all now accessible through the proper law enforcement channels. |
if you believe that you are a moron. when you have your phone powered off, it cannot communicate with the nearest bts. therefor the bts does not know your phone is there and cannot communicate with your phone. and cannot send a command to turn it on.
now if we are talking about having the phone on already and a call is place. then yes monitoring does happen. but it is done at the msc level.
the gov used to have equipment placed at each bts, but that was to catch cloned analog phones.