[FedCom] Cell Phones ON at POTUS event?

[john wilson]

    I am not sure exactly how cellphones work when turned on but not connected
to a call.  My understanding is the cellphone does periodically poll for the
strongest tower transmit/receive signal.  Whether or not the polling is  done
at power on time or send/receive time I don't know.  Based upon the post it
would infer that the particular cellphone information profile could be
monitored, decoded and logged in a SS database at power on time.

"john-k1rc at juno.com" wrote:

> Is it possible to pole the active phones for the numbers and therefor
> know who is at the rally by checking out the owners of the
> phones? -And- gleening any other info from the phones???
> Wouldn't put it past 'em.
>
> Just a thought,
> John  K1RC
>
> -- ed <bernies at netaxs.com> wrote:
> a friend sent me this interesting piece of info.  anyone have any idea why
> this was instructed by federal officials?
>
>  >I recently saw the president speak here in Chanhassen, Minnesota (hey,
> it was free and I was bored on a saturday)
>
> It was pretty dull, but here's the interesting part. Before the speech
> started, they requested that everyone have their cell phones turned ON
> during the speech. I'm honestly perplexed as to why this could be.
> This obviously confused more people than just myself, as someone else
> asked to clarify - indeed, they wanted all of our phones on.
>
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