Carriers Promise Database for Cutoffs to Reduce Cellphone Theft

摘要

The FCC and the national wireless carriers announced an agreement aimed at reducingncellphone thefts. The carriers promised to activate within six months a database to allownstolen phones to be blocked. Smartphones are "like catnip" for criminals, Sen. CharlesnSchumer, D-N.Y., said at the announcement event. "They’re valuable. ... They’re easy tonsteal.