Carriers, FCC Team to ?Brick? Stolen Smartphones as a Theft Deterrent

The nation's major wireless telephone companies and the FCC announced an initiative Tuesday that aims to reduce the theft of smartphones by creating the means to completely disable them remotely ? what could be a major deterrent in the skyrocketing black market for high-end mobile phones.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/carrier-brick-smartphone-fcc/

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