> Now on paper this may sound like a reasonable idea
No it's not reasonable at all. If my phone cannot make emergency calls, why would you block other services on it? Surely it is better I can call my wife and ask her to call emergency than not being able to use the phone at all? I fail to understand how this regulation was framed and why the author thinks this makes sense.
Tell that to the 8 million or so yearly tourists who now at minimum can't make emergency calls even on brand new top-of-the-line phones due to regional modem differences.
No it's not reasonable at all. If my phone cannot make emergency calls, why would you block other services on it? Surely it is better I can call my wife and ask her to call emergency than not being able to use the phone at all? I fail to understand how this regulation was framed and why the author thinks this makes sense.