R A D I O P H O N E
Information Source for Cellular Telephony, PCS, and Wireless data
Copyright 1994-1996 Sinister Networks
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RADIOPHONE Cellular Telephone Programming Information The authoritative Internet source.
Authentication - The cellular carrier's latest weapon in fighting cellular phraud
Wierd tidbit: A correspondent reports: "Some people are paying Digital Rates & using Analog phones, they program their phone with a Digital ESN & give that to the Cell Carrier then just us the Analog side of the system w/ any AMPS phone, don't ask me-I aint tried it so I don't know about that one." Motorola phones use different ESN prefixes for digital phones, so one could simply use RadioPhone's ESN Prefix Table to make up a D-AMPS (TDMA) ESN.
Monitoring Cellular System Data streams. - i.e., with "DDI" boxes.
GSM - International digital cellular
World Cellular Guide New! Still somewhat primitive.
CDPD means data transmission over AMPS cellular.
Easy ESN will read your ESN back to you.
Brian Oblivion's Cellular Telephony Files:
Other tutorials & general cellular information
Cellular Utilities Misc. Programs related to cellular.
Explanations of terms used in cellular programming. Not yet complete.
Pager protocols, web interfaces, reprogramming
More technical information.
Miscellaneous Cellular-related Web Pages.
If you want to read boring business propaganda from some telecommunications companies who really don't seem to understand that you have to provide some information of value on a web page, go ahead.
Read the Wireless Week article of August 12, 1996 about RadioPhone, and my responses.
Cell Phone Industry Rejects U.S. Plan for SurveillanceNew York Times article (use "cypherpunks" password "cypherpunks" if you don't have an account). 9/20/96 - For once, the cellular industry does something to protect its users!
"If Cellular Clones are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Cellular Clones" - A legal critique of the FCC prohibition of ESN modifications
Cool8's U.K. Cellular Web Page
GTE Mobilenet continues their on-line game (in which one has to track a cellular hacker) in "HackerX" Victorious II
Markus Kuhn is an expert on cracking electronic data protection systems, such as the ones used in many cellular phones and cellular phone programming equipment.
Null Device's page, some good cellular info.
Janus Motorola GSM page.
Matt's GSM page, good info on GSM, Australia-oriented.
Techcell, a new (and still under construction) page of cellular info.
Check out these newsgroups:
ChangeLog - check to see what changes have been made lately.
Hits since 8/16/96. Who knows how many in the 22 months it existed before then.