Mexico: 24 Million Mobile Phones to be Cut Off Tomorrow in Crackdown

04-14-2010 • Guardian.co.uk/

Mexico is bracing itself for communications chaos tomorrow, with some 24m mobile phone lines due to be disconnected as part of a government crackdown on organised crime. The government announced today that only around 71% of the 83.5m mobile lines in Mexico had been logged with a new register, and that the disconnection of the rest was set to begin. The register was designed to help combat the use of mobiles in crimes such as kidnapping and phone extortions threatening violence unless the victim hands over some cash. But confusion and organisational disarray have marred the plan. Despite plenty of coverage of the issue in the press in the last few weeks, many Mexicans were unaware of an obligation to submit their data before the deadline of midnight on Saturday, or they simply failed to get around to registering.

1 Comments in Response to Mexico: 24 Million Mobile Phones to be Cut Off Tomorrow in Crackdown

Comment by Anonymous

Entered on: 4/14/2010 4:33:00 PM

Tomarrow, a day that will live in infamy, countless Mexican women and girls will begin mental meltdown - beginning with confusion, then desperation, then moving on to full house 'bitchyness', then hysteria, then mass clawing and maiming of anyone who gets in the way, and will probably end with mass murder/suicides.

Women all over the world love their phones.

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