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Post by Ausprep on Jan 20, 2014 18:49:07 GMT 10
Howdy members! Who here has thought about an "off the records", pre paid, mobile phone as an inclusion to there preps? I Have, and when i seen Telstra pre paids for $19ea at Bi-Lo..i jumped at one. So, i think the fact ive NEVER owned a pre paid device showed here as i needed two forms of id, one being photo ID. So, my "of the books" pre paid now has my name against it. My ideas of what i wanted to do, went out the window. Is there a way around this? Does anyone else have a mobile in there preps? Kind of in two minds with this now...
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Post by Nex Socius on Jan 20, 2014 21:01:15 GMT 10
Australia sucks for phones. In the USA, you don't need ID at all to buy a sim card, as long as you pay they are happy.
I have 2 mobiles - 1 iPhone on a plan which is paid off, just pay by the month non contract now. Plus 1 prepaid basic phone, which I use to sms someone special in America. I'm not sure if there is a way around being on the books. Is it a concern of the public finding your number, or hiding from authorities?
Edit: Another reason I have the prepaid, is that as great as iphones and smart phones are, their batteries only last a day compared to 7 days for crappy basic phone. I don't have any numbers stored in it (except the USA number) and no-one knows the number. In an emergency situation it can come in handy
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Post by qldprepper on Jan 21, 2014 13:05:56 GMT 10
some people sell the sim cards on ebay that you can easily get a hold of - then its a matter of registering the sim to some bogus name and address - they never check them for anything, they just need something to put against their files. an unlocked phone you can find easily enough. organising a burner is a little more difficult here than in the us but not by much.
i personally havent bothered with a phone - in my experience the first thing to fail in any emergency situation is the civilian mobile network. they get overloaded because everyone calls everyone they know to make sure theyre ok and then the hardware fails under the load - they also get the vast portion of their bandwidth assigned to emergency services and the military (so that they have stable communications when they need it). network failures happened in many population centres in the USA during their last countrywide emergency (everyone knows what im talking about here). A phone will be pretty much useless in any situation that requires you to either hunker down or bug out.
Handheld VHF or UHF radios are the way to go - nothing can stop those transmitting (except battery and equipment failure of course) and they don't need the repeater networks that the mobiles do. Plus on some models you'll be able to listen in on emergency services bands to stay up to date on whats going on.
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Post by Ausprep on Jan 21, 2014 18:16:20 GMT 10
Thanks qldprepper. There was a motive behind purchasing this. Currently, i cant for the life of me think what it was exactly lol. Backup maybe? Either way, it could come in handy providing an EMP isn't on the cards.
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Post by qldprepper on Jan 21, 2014 19:00:35 GMT 10
as far as they go the particular model you bought is actually what some people in the mining industry uses because its got a larger than normal antenna - i had one myself for a while and theyre great when you're out in the sticks. theyre phones you can only get from telstra because thats the only network where you'll see any kind of benefit
its always good to have a backup regardless of the situation. better to have it n not need it than need it n not have it i always say
even better if its a burner that you can toss when youre done with it
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