> In the raid, authorities seized 1200 SIM boxes, with the devices containing 40,000 active SIM cards
Realistically, wouldn't that look suspicious to a cell tower if 40k sims log in from one location?
Realistically, wouldn't that look suspicious to a cell tower if 40k sims log in from one location?
(I also understand they rarely use all active SIMs at the same time but instead rotate through in order to avoid arousing suspicion)
Also to use fewer resources! Compared to the SIM cards, the radio/modems are expensive. It's cheaper to reuse one radio/modem cycling through different SIM cards for just long enough to receive pending SMSes. But not too many, or you increase latency. It's probably more suspicious to have the same modems cycling through SIM cards than to have all of them always connected.
Just speculation though, it's more likely they just paid the right people off.