phone before fuk yoo was mee wontel. haha
I had a friend working for one of the major cell networks and he would hook me up with phones registered to Disney characters for a few $.
It doesn't matter if you sell the phone as far as LEOs are concerned. If I buy a phone, use 10 mins and then give it to Joe and he commits a crime using the phone. The cops will come after me and I will say "I gave it to Joe" and they'll go after him. If he gave it to someone, he'll direct them to that person. This trail that cops can follow is what the bill is intended to achieve.
It will be so that you need to register with your SSN, much like prepaid credit cards, so fake IDs and etc won't be much help.
Any decent criminal knows to use encrypted lines anyway. If OTR comes to AIM for phones, this bill will become obsolete before it ever gets passed.
Ya I am not stupid read my post, up in Canada there is a monopoly on cellphones and all of the big companies already require proof of ID to register a pay as you go phone.. Rogers,Fido,Bell,Telus... The only pay as you go phones that I know of that don't require ID are the 711 speak out phones and the petro canada phones which are actually the same company. I was just giving a suggestion.. don't you have anything better to do?