Mexico to Cut Millions of Mobile Phones in Bid to Fight Crime
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Tens of millions of Mexicans could find their cellphones disconnected this weekend as the government has decided to move forward with a new law meant to fight crime by forcing people to register their identities in a federal mobile phone database.
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Advertisements on government radio and television have been urging Mexicans for weeks to register their cellphones by sending their personal details as a text message or online, but as of Thursday more than 30 million lines remained unregistered as the Saturday deadline neared.
Unfortunately for those of us who waited to register, the prospect of having a functioning cellphone come midnight Saturday is looking pretty grim as all means of registering information have crashed due to over-saturation.
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