Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Mexico set to cut off 24m mobile phone lines in crime crackdown

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/mexican-mobile-phones-crime-crackdown




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.