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Let's say they're flying a Cesna 1,500 feet over a metro area, that could easily be millions of cellphone connections. A regular cell tower can't handle that many. I'm wondering how this could work.

You don't have to transmit voice or data, just capture and release IMSI ID'S. The capacity is there.

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