• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Why? Not disagreeing, just curious if there’s something to base this off of. It’s a whole lot of phones, but old phones are still perfectly functional and cheap as dirt in bulk. You can get 100-phone management racks off alibaba for not too much, so while this setup would be damned large, it’s for sure not impossible to set up for a dedicated enough actor.

    And that said it’d be a pain in the ass. Could you replicate the functionality with a broadband radio and a server, maybe?

      • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
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        23 days ago

        You don’t need phones. They are emulated. Better to call it a SIM farm but phone farm is good enough a term colloquially.