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- 12-15-2003, 12:03 AM #16PeterbiltGuest
Re: WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture
This is a joke right? I mean the WNP is not worldwide is it? I thought it
was just a US thing started by the FCC.
"Sue" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> HAHAHHAHHAHAHHHA
>
>
> LOL
>
>
>
> "Shizz In It" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:7J%[email protected]...
> > December 14, 2003
> > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> > Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit,
> where
> > he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The
> arrest
> > was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an
insurgency
> > for months.
> >
> > Sources from the U.S. Military Intelligence Division familiar with the
> > details of his capture disclosed today they had been monitoring cellular
> > telephone activity in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit using sophisticated
> > satellite eavesdropping technology. Apparently Hussein, in an effort to
> > further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture him, had placed a
> > cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order to port his cellular
> > number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless Number Portability
(WNP)
> > Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not knowing they had Saddam Hussein
on
> > the line, Customer Service representatives from the new cellular carrier
> had
> > placed Hussein on hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer
> his
> > service to a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to
> > intercept the call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where
> the
> > deposed dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the
> U.S.
> > 4th Infantry Division.
> >
> > Major General Ricardo Sanchez, Supreme Commander of the coalition
> Occupation
> > Forces in Iraq, told the press in an early briefing that Hussein was
> > "cooperative and seemed resigned to his fate that it would take at least
> > five days more before his new cellular carrier would be able to complete
> the
> > transfer."
> >
> > Thus far calls to President George Bush and White House Press Liason
went
> > unanswered this morning as their telephone numbers were still in the
> process
> > of being transferred to new carriers.
> >
> > A joint press release from AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS
> and
> > Alltell today said, "We are working as hard as we can to expedite the
> > porting of numbers and improve the process by lowering hold and transfer
> > times now that this evil dictator, the world's greatest terrorist has
> > finally been captured."
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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- 12-15-2003, 12:48 AM #17MikeGuest
Re: WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture
Peterbilt wrote:
> This is a joke right? I mean the WNP is not worldwide is it? I thought it
> was just a US thing started by the FCC.
Nope. If you look back through the news, there was a big deal over
Qualcomm trying to push CDMA into Iraq instead of GSM. Some called it an
American money grab, which it was. Well, Qualcomm succeeded, and now
SprintPCS and Verizon are fighting over Iraqi cellular customers. Since
Iraq is under U.S. occupation, and because SprintPCS and Verizon are
American companies, a decision was made by Jay Garner's people to
require that the carrier's Iraqi operations support WLNP. In fact, Iraq
had WLNP before the US, as the two carriers used Iraq as a test market,
offering it in the Baghdad market on August 10th, rolling it out in the
rest of Iraq on October 20th.
-mike
- 12-15-2003, 01:42 AM #18PeterbiltGuest
Re: WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture
Then he was a very stupid man..... lol
"Mike" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Peterbilt wrote:
> > This is a joke right? I mean the WNP is not worldwide is it? I thought
it
> > was just a US thing started by the FCC.
>
> Nope. If you look back through the news, there was a big deal over
> Qualcomm trying to push CDMA into Iraq instead of GSM. Some called it an
> American money grab, which it was. Well, Qualcomm succeeded, and now
> SprintPCS and Verizon are fighting over Iraqi cellular customers. Since
> Iraq is under U.S. occupation, and because SprintPCS and Verizon are
> American companies, a decision was made by Jay Garner's people to
> require that the carrier's Iraqi operations support WLNP. In fact, Iraq
> had WLNP before the US, as the two carriers used Iraq as a test market,
> offering it in the Baghdad market on August 10th, rolling it out in the
> rest of Iraq on October 20th.
> -mike
>
- 12-15-2003, 08:43 AM #19Dean MGuest
Re: WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture
ROFLMAO. Great post.
____________________________________________
Shizz In It wrote:
> December 14, 2003
> BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam
> Hussein was captured by coalition forces near his hometown of Tikrit, where
> he was hiding in a farmhouse cellar, U.S. officials said Sunday. The arrest
> was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency
> for months.
>
> Sources from the U.S. Military Intelligence Division familiar with the
> details of his capture disclosed today they had been monitoring cellular
> telephone activity in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit using sophisticated
> satellite eavesdropping technology. Apparently Hussein, in an effort to
> further confound U.S. coalition efforts to capture him, had placed a
> cellular call to a major cellular carrier in order to port his cellular
> number to a new carrier pursuant to the Wireless Number Portability (WNP)
> Act enacted on November 24, 2003. Not knowing they had Saddam Hussein on
> the line, Customer Service representatives from the new cellular carrier had
> placed Hussein on hold for over an hour while they attempted to transfer his
> service to a new carrier thereby allowing intelligence officials to
> intercept the call and trace it to Hussein's hiding place in Iraq where the
> deposed dictator was soon thereafter captured in a pre-dawn raid by the U.S.
> 4th Infantry Division.
>
> Major General Ricardo Sanchez, Supreme Commander of the coalition Occupation
> Forces in Iraq, told the press in an early briefing that Hussein was
> "cooperative and seemed resigned to his fate that it would take at least
> five days more before his new cellular carrier would be able to complete the
> transfer."
>
> Thus far calls to President George Bush and White House Press Liason went
> unanswered this morning as their telephone numbers were still in the process
> of being transferred to new carriers.
>
> A joint press release from AT&T, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS and
> Alltell today said, "We are working as hard as we can to expedite the
> porting of numbers and improve the process by lowering hold and transfer
> times now that this evil dictator, the world's greatest terrorist has
> finally been captured."
- 12-15-2003, 08:46 AM #20DonaldGuest
Re: WNP Trips up Saddam Hussein and Leads to Capture
In article <[email protected]>,
Dean M <"dean173"@yahoo.com(change to aol)> wrote:
> ROFLMAO. Great post.
Scary thing is the way ALL the carriers are dragging their heels
its almost all believable.
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