No other than TracFone President and CEO FJ Pollak led the cheers on the new Wireless Prepaid Access Device Enforcement Act that was laid down which aims to put a stop toward illegal activities and hoarding of prepaid wireless phones for other purposes.

The growth of bulk ordering in the hundreds to thousands of handsets have become a cause for alarm for companies like TracFone. Rather than serving the U.S. consumers, syndicates have taken advantage of the situation, buying handsets in bulk for potential distribution outside of U.S. waters. The phones are hacked and modified so that they will not work with intended U.S. networks resulting in huge losses.

The Wireless Prepaid Access Device Enforcement Act of 2009 would make it a Federal crime to knowingly purchase new prepaid handsets in the U.S. for the purpose of modifying the phones’ software which prevents their use as intended on the U.S. carriers’ networks for which they were manufactured and sold. The Act would also prohibit a person from knowingly reselling or distributing new prepaid phones outside the U.S.

(Source) Press