Prepaid mobile phone service and the anonymous caller: Considering wireless E9-1-1 in Canada

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 555-572

  Gow, Gordon A ^a   Ihnat, Mark ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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